Can anyone tell me what another word for thesaurus is?
Didn't Steven Wright ask this?
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synonyms
1: treasury or storehouse
2 a: a book of words or of information about a particular field or set of concepts; especiathesaurus questionlly : a book of words and their synonyms b: a list of subject headings or descriptors usually with a cross-reference system for use in the organization of a collection of documents for reference and retrieval
A thesaurus does not define words as dictionaries do. Itthesaurus question offers synonyms and antonyms as dictionaries usually do not. It is a specific book for a specific purpose. I suppose you could call it a lexicon, but not all lexicons are thesauruses, so I see no synonym. This, more often than not, is the case with nouns.
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