英语词汇“thesaurus”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A thesaurus is a reference book (or a really cool website, like the Visual Thesaurus) with an organized list of words and their synonyms.

An Englishman named Peter Roget published the first modern English thesaurus in 1852. Roget had severe depression, and one of the ways he coped was to put his list-making and lexicographical (word analyzing) skills to use in a reference book that would group words, not alphabetically, but according to how similar their meanings were. This being the middle of the 19th century, there were no computers: Roget compiled and sorted all of his lists by hand.

WORD FAMILY

thesaurus: thesauri, thesauruses

USAGE EXAMPLES

There are plenty of thesaurus apps with a tremendous number of alternatives.

Salon(Dec 24, 2016)

“Dig into a thesaurus,” Ms. Donahue advised a man dismayed by online dating.

Wall Street Journal(Dec 18, 2016)

Rather than mint new words, however, the Germans need only look to history for a nationalist thesaurus.

Washington Post(Dec 09, 2016)

n a book containing a classified list of synonyms

Syn|Hypo|Hyper

synonym finder

word finder, wordfinder

a thesaurus organized to help you find the word you want but cannot think of

wordbook

a reference book containing words (usually with their meanings)

单词	thesaurus
释义	thesaurus (once / 15844 pages) n A thesaurus is a reference book (or a really cool website, like the Visual Thesaurus) with an organized list of words and their synonyms. An Englishman named Peter Roget published the first modern English thesaurus in 1852. Roget had severe depression, and one of the ways he coped was to put his list-making and lexicographical (word analyzing) skills to use in a reference book that would group words, not alphabetically, but according to how similar their meanings were. This being the middle of the 19th century, there were no computers: Roget compiled and sorted all of his lists by hand. WORD FAMILY thesaurus: thesauri, thesauruses USAGE EXAMPLES There are plenty of thesaurus apps with a tremendous number of alternatives. Salon(Dec 24, 2016) “Dig into a thesaurus,” Ms. Donahue advised a man dismayed by online dating. Wall Street Journal(Dec 18, 2016) Rather than mint new words, however, the Germans need only look to history for a nationalist thesaurus. Washington Post(Dec 09, 2016) n a book containing a classified list of synonyms Syn\|Hypo\|Hyper synonym finder word finder, wordfinder a thesaurus organized to help you find the word you want but cannot think of wordbook a reference book containing words (usually with their meanings)
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