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thesauruses

thesauruses is the plural of thesaurus.

Meaning of thesaurus

Noun

thesaurus (plural thesauri or thesauruses)

  1. A publication that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language.
    • "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.
  2. (archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
  3. A hierarchy of subject headings: canonical titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.

Questions about thesauruses

What is thesauruses the plural of?
Thesauruses is the plural of thesaurus.

Words near thesauruses in the dictionary

  1. thesaurismotic
  2. thesaurization
  3. thesaurize
  4. thesaurosis
  5. thesaurus
  6. thesauruses
  7. thesaurusi
  8. thesauruslike
  9. thescelosaur
  10. thescelosaurid
  11. thescelosaurids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thesauruses (page history and authors); thesaurus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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