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Word: Thesaurus
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 16th century: via Latin from Greek thēsauros ‘storehouse, treasure’. The original sense ‘dictionary or encyclopedia’ was narrowed to the current meaning by the publication of Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1852)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
θɪˈsɔːrəs
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a book or electronic resource that lists words in groups of synonyms and related concepts
Short Definition:book that lists words in groups of synonyms
Examples:- I'm going to need a thesaurus to come up with synonyms for ‘stupid’
- most word processors have such tools as the spellchecker, thesaurus, and grammar checker
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