thesaurus
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A thesaurus is a reference book that lists words grouped by meaning, helping you find synonyms (words with similar meanings) or related words when writing. It matters because it allows writers to express ideas more precisely and avoid repetition by choosing from a range of similar words.
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- Etymology
- History
- Organization
- Conceptual
- Alphabetical
- Contrasting senses
- Additional elements
- Bilingual
- Information science and natural language processing
- See also
- Bibliography
- References
- External links
thumb|Thesaurus Linguae Latinae thumb|A modern English thesaurus
A thesaurus (: 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 synonyms and antonyms. They are often used by writers to help find the best word to express an idea: