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Thesaurus

A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of…

History, Information science and natural language processing & Organization

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Etymology

History

Organization

Information science and natural language processing

Bibliography

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  • ISBN ISBN (identifier)
  • JSTOR JSTOR (identifier)

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Thesaurus

Nodes55
Edges54
Triples94
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.036364
Components1

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Thesaurus

Top relations

related to Bibliography · 60
Thesaurus → America, Applied, Collinson, Comparative Synonymics, Concepts, December, Dictionaries, Eighteenth Century, England, English, Hans-Josef Hiederehe, Hassler, Historical Dictionaries, Historical Dictionary Research, Historical Lexicography, History, Hüllen, Illustrations, International Conference, ISBN
related to Etymology · 11
Thesaurus → Ancient Greek, Dictionary, Greek Language, It, Latin, Latin Language, Roget, The, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Until
related to Conceptual · 7
Thesaurus → Borrow, Debt, Each, For, Heads, Numbers, Roget's
related to history · 5
Thesaurus → Amarakosha, Byblos, In Sanskrit, Philo, The Ancient Greek
related to External links · 4
Thesaurus → OneLook, The, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2, WiktionaryThe Wiktionary ThesaurusOneLook Thesaurus
related to Information science and natural language processing · 3
Thesaurus → In, Simple Knowledge Organization System, SKOS
is a · 1
Thesaurus → kind of controlled vocabulary.A thesaurus can form part of an ontology and be represented in the Simple Knowledge Organization System

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Important terminology

dictionary synonyms synonym dictionaries words thesauri word english language debt roget roget's taxonomy include modern 1852 often usage conceptual organised

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Thesaurusis akind of controlled vocabulary.A thesaurus can form part of an ontology and be represented in the Simple Knowledge Organization System0.90text
Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage or Garner's Modern English Usage often prescribe the usage of synonyms.Writers sometimes use thesauri to avoid repetition of wordsinstance ofUsage manuals0.80text
eliminating the four-level taxonomyinstance ofOthers have made modest changes0.80text
adding new headsinstance ofOthers have made modest changes0.80text
Thesaurusrelated to BibliographyCollinson0.60section
Thesaurusrelated to BibliographyComparative Synonymics0.60section
Thesaurusrelated to BibliographySome Principles0.60section
Thesaurusrelated to BibliographyIllustrations0.60section
Thesaurusrelated to BibliographyTransactions0.60section
Thesaurusrelated to BibliographyPhilological Society0.60section
Thesaurusrelated to BibliographyNovember0.60section
Thesaurusrelated to BibliographyLock-green0.60section

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