THESAURUS (thesauri)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: thesauri   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does thesaurus mean? 

• THESAURUS (noun)
  The noun THESAURUS has 1 sense:

1. a book containing a classified list of synonyms

  Familiarity information: THESAURUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THESAURUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A book containing a classified list of synonyms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

synonym finder; thesaurus

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)

 Context examples 

The NCI Thesaurus, which is a biomedical thesaurus created specifically to meet the needs of the NCI, is produced by the NCI EVS project.

(NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services, NCI Thesaurus)

The National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus.

(Medical Subject Headings, NCI Thesaurus)

This may be a node in a taxonomy or ontology or a term in a thesaurus, etc.

(Classification Scheme Item, NCI Thesaurus)