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thesaurus

noun
/θɪˈsɔːɹəs/

Etymology

16th century, borrowed from Latin thēsaurus, from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “storehouse, treasure”); its current English usage/meaning was established soon after the publication of Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852. Doublet of treasure.

  1. derived from θησαυρός
  2. borrowed from thēsaurus

Definitions

  1. A publication that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic…

    A publication that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language.

    • "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.
    • As reference books go, the thesaurus has had a somewhat checkered history, in fact, and has probably occasioned as much bad writing as good.

  2. A dictionary or encyclopedia.

  3. A hierarchy of subject headings

    A hierarchy of subject headings: canonical titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.

The neighborhood

Derived

metathesaurus, thesaural, thesauruslike

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for thesaurus. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA