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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'thesaurus' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions thesaurus noun (thesauri, pl2=thesauruses) A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language. Wiktionary is a and dictionary. (archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia. Translations:  Dutch: thesaurus , synoniemenwoordenboek French: Dictionnaire des synonymes German: Thesaurus Spanish: tesauro Etymology: 16th century, from New Latin thesaurusLatin, thesaurus "treasure" < Classical Latin thesaurusLatin, thesaurus < Ancient Greek (polytonic, ) (thÄsauros) "storehouse" or "treasure"; its current English usage/meaning was established soon after the publication of Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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