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Meanings of thesaurus in English

Russian
тезаурус
Portuguese
thesaurus
Spanish
tesauro documental
Catalan
tesaurus

Form of controlled vocabulary with inner structure for subject indexing.

тезаурус
Portuguese
thesauri
Catalan
diccionari de sinònims
Spanish
tesauro

A book containing a classified list of synonyms.

thesauri
Usage of thesaurus in English
1
I'd sooner give up my thesaurus- Icouldalways download one, after all.
A farewell to legs: an aaron tucker mystery
2
Alter tradition a little by using a thesaurus instead of a dictionary.
Wired
3
Louis van Gaal is clearly angling for a thesaurus as a Christmas present.
The Guardian
4
The library was another thesaurus: rich bindings encased volumes worthy of their garb.
The Voice on the Wire
5
But generally, my brother and I developed a sort of thesaurus for ourselves.
The Verge
6
The app is also capable of doing some amazing phonetic and thesaurus-based searches.
Wired
7
My guilty pleasure at the end of the day is an old thesaurus.
The Guardian
8
And in that brain, apparently, is a voluminous, somewhat outdated thesaurus.
Wired
9
A bunch of synonyms you dug out of a medical thesaurus.
The Rhesus Chart
10
You mean 'acrimonious.' This is why God invented the thesaurus.
Getting in: a novel
11
I wish I'd never shown you the thesaurus option, anyway.
What does a martian look like?
12
The word "free" had slipped out of his vocabulary, dictionary, thesaurus, whatever.
The Kingmaker
13
Critics exhausted the thesaurus in their efforts to communicate the digital otherness of Avatar.
The Irish Times
14
I will go, and I re-engineer it through a thesaurus.
Wired
15
Maybe it was time she invested in a thesaurus.
Starstruck
16
It was... He accessed his neural nanonics' thesaurus file.
The Reality Dysfunction