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   The·sau·rus

   /THəˈsôrəs/

   

   noun

   • 1. a book or electronic resource that lists words in groups of synonyms and related concepts: "I'm going to need a thesaurus to come up with synonyms for ‘stupid’"
   • ▪ a dictionary or encyclopedia.

   Word Origin late 16th century: via Latin from Greek thēsauros ‘storehouse, treasure’. The original sense ‘dictionary or encyclopedia’ was narrowed to the current meaning by the publication of Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1852).

   Scrabble Points: 12

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   A thesaurus is a book or program that lists synonyms and antonyms of words. A thesaurus can be a book you can find in a library, a website (such as Thesaurus.com ), or a database stored in a word processor (such as the one you can find in Microsoft Word).

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