thesaurus

About 0.79 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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.

2. noun A dictionary or encyclopedia.
3. noun A hierarchy of subject headings: canonical titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.

Similar words

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Word family

thesaural thesauri thesauruses