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THESAURUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: thesauri   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A book containing a classified list of synonyms

Synonyms:

synonym finder; thesaurus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("thesaurus" is a kind of...):

wordbook (a reference book containing words (usually with their meanings))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thesaurus"):

word finder; wordfinder (a thesaurus organized to help you find the word you want but cannot think of)

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