thesaurus

IPA: θʌsˈɔrʌs

A publication, traditionally in the form of a book and now often online, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language.
(archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
(information science) A hierarchy of subject headings: canonical titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.

Examples of "thesaurus" in Sentences

Seminar on thesaurus in information systems.
To a synset in the thesaurus, to obtain a wordnet.
I'm a librarian, taxonomist, and thesaurus manager.
An association thesaurus for information retrieval.
Thesaurus A thesaurus contains an entry for each object.
For instance, those based on thesaurus depend on the thesaurus scope.
All future mentions of thesaurus will refer to a published thesaurus.
There's evidence of dangerous reliance on the dictionary and the thesaurus.
This paper follows this line of research and proposes a method to extend an existing thesaurus by classifying new words in terms of that thesaurus.
The goal of this effort is to determine the feasibility of using a monolingual English thesaurus and bilingual dictionaries to generate a monolingual Italian thesaurus.