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What is a thesaurus?

What is a thesaurus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language.
  2. (archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
  3. (information science) A hierarchy of subject headingscanonic titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
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Finally, I'd like to know if you've replaced editors with the spell checker and thesaurus of your word processor.
Not every dictionary or thesaurus acknowledges the opposite of feminism and feminist.
It also catches dictionary and thesaurus sites and sends back deliberate misspellings, antonyms instead of synonyms, etc.
Without commenting, Craig asked one student to look the word up in a dictionary and another student to find the word in a thesaurus.
I keep turning to the dictionary and the thesaurus, not for a reference, simply to read words at random.
Interestingly, when creating the spirituality and health thesaurus, I thought we were disambiguating terms until we did the indexing pilot study.

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