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See also Thesaurus
NounSingular thesaurus Plural thesauri or thesauruses thesaurus (plural thesauri or thesauruses)
SynonymsDerived termsFrom Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. A thesaurus is a work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations. The largest thesaurus in the world is the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which contains more than 920,000 words and meanings. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License What is the biggest, best, most comprehensive thesaurus in existence? Q. You know. Who publishes it? LMAO. Er, no. The best advice my writing teacher ever gave me is to use a thesaurus - because it builds your vocabulary immensely. There is a proper way to use the thesaurus, like only using words you've heard of but just hadn't thought of rather than pulling ridiculous words out of nowhere that you've never seen in your life or that are from the 17th century. Asked by Franzia Kafka - Sat Sep 15 22:55:26 2007 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. I don't know about the biggest and most comprehensive thesaurus, but I like Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus by Charlton Laird and Michael E. Agnes. It has more than 300,000 synonyms and 928 pages (in the paperback version). Another good one - that includes some unusual words like wannabe, laid-back, kvetch - is Random House Webster's College Thesaurus that is 800 pages (hard cover) and has more than 400,000 synonyms and antonyms. If you don't like these, there are any number of free ones online. These sites each have a thesaurus (Bartleby has other references, too): Answered by unknown - Sat Sep 15 23:45:52 2007 What Dictionary and Thesaurus do you use? Q. Yahoo spell checker is okay but it have it's faults. And as my own book of words is very old I would like to update it with something else. Can I pick your brains on this one please? Asked by eighthours - Wed Sep 6 07:35:37 2006 - - 18 Answers - 0 Comments A. www.wordweb.com It's program you can download that sits on your taskbar, it's fantastic for both dictionary and thesaurus. I use it all the time! Answered by vickstyla - Wed Sep 6 08:20:21 2006 what is "converting a sentence into one appropriate word called? Also please tell what is thesaurus?
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