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.

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Contents 1 Literary Thesauri 2 Specialized Thesauri for Information Retrieval 3 Standards and Manuals 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Literary Thesauri

• Thesaurus of English Words & Phrases (ed. P. Roget); ISBN 0-06-272037-6, see: Roget's Thesaurus.
• The Synonym Finder (ed. J. I. Rodale); ISBN 0-87857-236-8
• Webster's New World Thesaurus (ed. C. Laird); ISBN 0-671-51983-2
• Oxford American Desk Thesaurus (ed. C. Lindberg); ISBN 0-19-512674-2
• Random House Word Menu by Stephen Glazier; ISBN 0-679-40030-3
• Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE), http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/EngLang/thesaur/toe1.htm
• WordNet
• OpenThesaurus

[edit] Specialized Thesauri for Information Retrieval

• NAL Agricultural Thesaurus, (United States National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture)
• European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies; ISBN 978-3-927674-11-0
• Evaluation Thesaurus (by. M. Scriven); ISBN 0-8039-4364-4
• Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms (APA); ISBN 1-55798-775-0
• Clinician's Thesaurus, (by E.Zuckerman); ISBN 1-57230-569-X
• Art and Architecture Thesaurus, (Getty Institute)
• Eurovoc Thesaurus, (Europa Publications Office)
• AGROVOC Thesaurus, (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
• GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus, (European Environment Agency)

[edit] Standards and Manuals

The ANSI/NISO Z39.19 Standard of 2005 defines guidelines and conventions for the format, construction, testing, maintenance, and management of monolingual controlled vocabularies including lists, synonym rings, taxonomies, and thesauruses.^[1]

For multilingual vocabularies, the ISO 5964 Guidelines for the establishment and development of multilingual thesauri can be applied.

Thesaurus Construction and Use: a practical manual. Jean Aitchison, Allan Gilchrist and David Bawden. London and New York: Europa Publications (2000).

[edit] See also

Look up thesaurus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• AGRIS
• Controlled vocabulary
• Dictionary
• Ontology (computer science)
• Simple Knowledge Organisation System

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Thesaurus.com
• Synonyms.me
• Snappy Words Free English Dictionary and Thesaurus
• United Dictionary User Submitted Thesaurus
• TemaTres: open source thesaurus management
• Aiksaurus: open source and online thesaurus
• Yahoo!Education: Thesaurus
• Public Domain Db's Free Online Thesaurus
• Sinonimi: open source online thesaurus
• Online thesaurus based on the Open Office spell checker Hunspell

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