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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
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