Look up: thesaurus

1. thesaurus
   Latin, meaning: treasure, horde / store-room, treasury.
   Found on http://archives.nd.edu/ttt.htm
   
   
2. thesaurus
   controlled vocabulary in which concepts are represented by preferred terms, formally organized so that paradigmatic relationships between the concepts are made explicit, and the preferred terms are accompanied by lead-in entries for synonyms or quasi-synonyms. The purpose of a thesaurus is to guide ...
   Found on http://www.willpowerinfo.co.uk/glossary.
   
   
3. thesaurus
   [n] - a book containing a classified list of synonyms
   Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio
   
   
4. Thesaurus
   A controlled vocabulary of terms used to aid document indexing and searching.
   Found on http://www.doconsite.co.uk/directorypage
   
   
5. thesaurus
   a list of words arranged according to meaning, rather than alphabetically as in a standard dictionary.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib
   
   
6. Thesaurus
   a reference text which groups words by meaning. A thesaurus can help writers to select words, consider the full range of alternatives and vary words which are used frequently: said, went, nice.
   Found on http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary
   
   
7. thesaurus
   a controlled list of descriptors and non-descriptors related by semantic(that is,hierarchical,associative,or equivalence)links Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • a controlled and dynamic documentary language containing semantically and generically related ...
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
8. Thesaurus
   The·sau'rus noun ; plural Thesauri . [ Latin See Treasure .] A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/43
   
   
9. thesaurus
   synonym finder noun a book containing a classified list of synonyms
   Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web
   
   
10. Thesaurus
    • (n.) A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
    
    
11. thesaurus
    (from the article `library`) A new use of the term thesaurus, now widespread, dates from the early 1950s in the work of H.P. Luhn, at International Business Machines Corporation ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/37
    
    
12. thesaurus
    (from the article `Roget, Peter Mark`) English physician and philologist remembered for his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1852), a comprehensive classification of synonyms or ... ...less useful than they might be if compiled in some other order. The assembling of words into groups related by some principle, as by their ... ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/37
    
    
13. thesaurus
    thesaurus (s) 1. A book that lists words related to each other in meaning, usually giving synonyms and antonyms. 2. A dictionary of words relating to a particular subject. 3. A place in which valuable things are stored. 4. Etymology: from 1823, 'treasury, storehouse'; from Latin thesaurus 'treasury, treasure'; from Greek thesauros, 'a treas...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf
    
    
14. Thesaurus
    A thesaurus is a form of dictionary or encyclopaedia in which generally words are arranged in a list or groups according to their sense. In North America the term thesaurus is often given to a dictionary of synonyms. A
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow
    
    
15. thesaurus
    Extensive collection of synonyms or words with related meaning. Thesaurus compilers include Francis Bacon, Comenius, and Peter Mark Roget, whose work was published in 1852
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency
    
    
16. Thesaurus
    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 contains definitions and pronunciations. The largest thesaurus in the world is the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxfor...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesaurus