Thesaurus

Noun

 * 1) A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language.
 * "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus.
 * 1)  A dictionary or encyclopedia.
 * 2)  A hierarchy of subject headings—canonic titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.

Thesaurus
armory, arsenal, biographical dictionary, cache, chemical dictionary, desk dictionary, dialect dictionary, dictionary, dictionary of quotations, electronics dictionary, etymological dictionary, foreign-language dictionary, gazetteer, general dictionary, geological dictionary, gloss, glossary, gradus, lexicon, lexis, nomenclator, onomasticon, phrase book, phraseology, polyglot dictionary, promptorium, repository, rhyming dictionary, science dictionary, slang dictionary, specialized dictionary, stock of words, storehouse, synonym dictionary, synonymy, terminology, treasure trove, treasury, treasury of words, unabridged dictionary, verbiage, vocabulary, word list, wordage, wordbook, wordhoard, words

Etymology
16th century, from thesaurus: <  θησαυρός:; its current English usage/meaning was established soon after the publication of Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852

Synonyms

 * synonymicon

Derived terms

 * thesaural

Translations

 * Catalan: diccionari de sinònims
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 分類詞詞典, 分类词词典
 * Czech:
 * Danish: begrebsordbog, saggruppeordbog, tesaurus,
 * Dutch: thesaurus, synoniemenwoordenboek
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, käsitesanakirja
 * French: dictionnaire des synonymes,, dictionnaire de notions, dictionnaire par ordre de matières
 * Galician: dicionario de sinónimos
 * German:, Begriffswörterbuch, Sachgruppenwörterbuch
 * Hungarian:, tezaurusz
 * Icelandic: hugtakaorðabók
 * Ido: tezauro


 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: dizionario dei sinonimi,
 * Japanese: シソーラス (shisōrasu), 類語辞典 (ruigo jiten)
 * Macedonian:, синонимен речник
 * Norwegian: begrepsordbok, begrepsklasseordbok, omgrepsordbok, omgrepsklasseordbok, tesaurus,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: dicionário de sinônimos,
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: речник синонима
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: begreppsordbok, begreppsklassordbok, tesaurus,
 * Turkish:


 * Catalan: tesaurus


 * Czech:

Noun

 * 1) treasure, hoard
 * et vasa intulit in domum thesauri dei sui
 * " and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god."
 * 1) a dear friend, loved one
 * 2) a vault for treasure
 * 3) chest, strongbox
 * 4) repository, collection
 * 1) repository, collection

Alternative forms

 * thensaurus

Etymology
From θησαυρός:.

Derived terms

 * thēsaurārius
 * thēsaurensis
 * thēsaurizātor
 * thēsaurizō