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thesaurus
  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.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “My favorite thesaurus has a pink hippo as its logo.”
      “Not every dictionary or thesaurus acknowledges the opposite of feminism and feminist.”
      “The destruction here is indescribable and the thesaurus has no words for what we have seen.”
thesauri
  1. plural form of thesaurus
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Dictionaries and thesauri and encyclopedias and books on modern usage are where you look up everything.”
      “Discussions took place on the electronic exchange of information and the use of common formats and thesauri.”
      “These include thesauri, subject headings lists, classification systems and other categorization schemes used to index or organize different databases.”
thesaurusi
  1. (rare, nonstandard) plural of thesaurus
  2. Examples:
    1. “Gather a variety of dictionaries and thesaurusi written for middle-school students as well as adults.”
      “In the closing weeks of 1959 and the early weeks of 1960, book dealers must have had a bonanza in selling thesaurusi.”
thesauruses
  1. plural of thesaurus
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  3. Examples:
    1. “While the rest of the world scoured their thesauruses for superlatives, the band themselves were concentrating.”
      “Documentary tools: Tables of contents of standing orders, concordances, lists, thesauruses, and other research documents.”
      “In the search for words, thesauruses are useful things, but they don't talk about the words they list.”
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