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Dictionary kin
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thesaurus
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a book containing a classified list of synonyms [syn: synonym finder ] [also: thesauri (pl)]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In general usage, a thesaurus is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms ), in contrast to a dictionary , which provides definitions for words, and generally lists ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language. 2 (context archaic English) A dictionary or encyclopedia. 3 (context information science English) A hierarchy of subject ...
Usage examples of thesaurus.
Bookcases filled with grimoires, daybooks, hornbooks, arcane thesauri, enchiridia, illuminated manuscripts, diaries, palimpsests, incunabula, claviculae, parerga, ana and epilegomena.
Ciceronian, Latinity, which may be found, not in the Glossary of Ducange, but in the Thesaurus of Robert Stephens.
She used the thesaurus program on her computer to generate page-long curses to call down on Peters's head.
Ultimus tandem chalifarum cui sumtus, stipendia, reditus, et thesauri, culinae, caeteraque omnis aulica pompa priorum chalifarum ad instar comparata fuerint.
Esk ducked as a flock of thesauri wheeled past, towing their shelf behind them, and scuttled on hands and knees towards him.
In the meanwhile, I'll be found waiting in front of a computer with a granola bar in one hand (carefully suspended away from the keyboad) and a good book or thesaurus in the other as the utility programs do their stuff.