1823, "treasury, storehouse," from Latin thesaurus "treasury, a hoard, a treasure, something laid up," figuratively "repository, collection," from Greek thesauros "a treasure, treasury, storehouse, chest," from root of tithenai "to put, to place" (see theme). The meaning "encyclopedia filled with information" is from 1840, but existed earlier as thesaurarie (1590s), used as a title by early dictionary compilers, on the notion of thesaurus verborum "a treasury of words." Meaning "collection of words arranged according to sense" is first attested 1852 in Roget's title. Thesaurer is attested in Middle English for "treasurer" and thesaur "treasure" was in use 15c.-16c.
实用例句
1. At the entry for " kill " , my thesaurus lists " murder " , " assassinate " and " waste " .
我的同义词词典在kill条目中列出murder, assassinate, waste 词条.
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2. Use a thesaurus to find synonyms for two of your words.
使用词典找到你的词汇中的两个同义词.
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3. Molly: Two of them are language dictionaries, one a synonym thesaurus.
莫莉: 两本是字典, 另一本是同义词典.
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4. The inner bootstrapping utilizes Synonymy Thesaurus to expand pattern semantics.
内自举借助通用的《同义词词林》扩张模式的语义范围.
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5. A thesaurus is a book of synonyms and antonyms.