Definitions for thesaurus

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thesaurus the·sau·rus

Spelling: [thi-sawr-uh s]

IPA: /θɪˈsɔr əs/

Thesaurus is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 391 anagrams from letters in thesaurus (aehrsstuu).

Definitions for thesaurus

noun

1. a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms, such as the online Thesaurus.com.
2. any dictionary, encyclopedia, or other comprehensive reference book.
3. a storehouse, repository, or treasury.
4. Computers. an index to information stored in a computer, consisting of a comprehensive list of subjects concerning which information may be retrieved by using the proper key terms. a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms stored in memory for use in word processing.
5. a thesaurus or dictionary of words with the same or nearly the same meanings, or synonyms, and their opposites, or antonyms, such as Thesaurus.com, available on the Internet or the World Wide Web, accessed through a web browser, and used by entering a query term into a search box on the site. An online thesaurus provides immediate electronic access to lists of alternate terms for the queried word, covering its various shades of meaning:

Origin of thesaurus

1730-40; Latin thēsaurus Greek thēsaurós ‘treasure, treasury’

Examples for thesaurus

First of all his age is thirty-six, and he is the editor of The thesaurus.

Get my thesaurus, Stony, off the desk in the next room, and turn to 'beauty.'

Had Palin scoured a thesaurus, she could not have come up with a more inflammatory phrase.

"Here, take the thesaurus," he said, as I hesitated for the word.

And now Pabo distinctly remembered that the thesaurus was not far beyond it.

Though the thesaurus is now superseded, its merits must not be forgotten.

Then I wrote at the top of the paper, 'thesaurus for the Ennuied.'

A thesaurus will brighten up a reporter's adjectival vocabulary.

Most of these (along with Tatian), are to be found in Schilter's thesaurus.

You couldn't trust this Swede as far as you could throw a thesaurus by the tail.