thesaurus
noun [ C ]
us
/θɪˈsɔːr.əs/ uk
/θɪˈsɔː.rəs/ plural thesauruses or formal thesauri us
/-ˈsɔːr.aɪ/ uk
/θɪˈsɔː.raɪ/Meaning of thesaurus in English
(Definition of thesaurus from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
thesaurus | Intermediate English
Examples of thesaurus
thesaurus
That one's going right into my sciencey thesaurus.
From Slate Magazine
They recorded their answers on a laptop that featured commonly used word-processing tools such as spell check and a thesaurus.
From Huffington Post
It has joined the canon of classic reference tomes that earn periodic updates and cozy homes on the bookshelf next to the thesaurus.
From TIME
Good grief man, put down that thesaurus, and get some prepositions!
From TIME
Uses like that may have led a 1978 thesaurus to include the word as a synonym for catastrophe.
From NPR
I just used an online thesaurus for these words.
From Hollywood Reporter
She smiled and whispered back that he was a thesaurus.
From Washington Post
You can pull a few lessons from the following list -- maybe simply that we journalists could occasionally use a thesaurus.
From NPR
The builder of a thesaurus is, in principle, lost in an infinite regress.
From The Atlantic
She doesn't mine the thesaurus for empty superlatives.
From Fast Company
A quick glance in any thesaurus shows the vast majority of synonyms for pride to be negative (e.g., hubris, arrogance).
From Huffington Post
Every journalist who reviewed the duo exhausted his thesaurus in search of synonyms for quirky.
From Slate Magazine
Looks like someone found a thesaurus.
From Huffington Post
The words historical thesaurus may send children running to the hills, for fear they're likely to be bored to death by some fellow with a monocle.
From TIME
For the thesauruses in these programs recognize far fewer forms than the spelling-checkers can, and only limited meanings for the forms they do recognize.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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eşanlamlı kelimeler sözlüğü, eş/zıt anlamlı sözcükler sözlüğü…
dictionnaire [masculine] de synonymes, thésaurus…
シソーラス…
thesaurus…
slovník…
synonymordbog…
kamus…
พจนานุกรมที่รวมคำศัพท์ที่มีความหมายใกล้เคียงกัน…
từ điển đồng nghĩa và phản nghĩa…
tezaurus, słownik wyrazów bliskoznacznych…
uppslagsbok…
tesaurus…
der Thesaurus…
synonymordbok [masculine], begrepsordbok, leksikon…
словник, енциклопедія…
тезаурус…
