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Thesauri

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.

Sites in Thesauri

Sybrina's Phrase Thesaurus
A creative phrase tool for creative writers of any genre including college students, people just learning English, people wanting to improve their communication skills, artistic professionals and others.
Germ
Searchable WordNet and Roget's Thesaurus with meaning trees.
WordNet - a Lexical Database for English
An on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets. From the Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton University
WWWebster Thesaurus
Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
Integrated english dictionary and thesaurus.
Bartleby.com: Reference
Includes "Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases" and Houghton-Mifflin's "Roget's II: The New Thesaurus," third edition.
Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
Online publication of this popular thesaurus made available by Bartleby.com.
INGRID Library Thesaurus
Allows direct term search with results hyperlinked to broader and narrower search terms. Available in English and Estonian.
Historical Thesaurus of English
Contains the vocabulary of English from the earliest written records to the present, with known recorded dates of usage, taken from the Oxford English Dictionary.
Yahoo! Roget's II Thesaurus
Contains over 260,000 synonyms and cross-references. Features succinct word definitions and hyperlinked category index.
Roget's Thesaurus - As distributed by Project Gutenberg
E-text of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which is derived from the version of Roget's Thesaurus published in 1911.
Phrases Thesaurus
A resource for writers. Enter a single word and it will return a list of phrases and sayings that are related to the word in some way. In English.
HASSET
Provides direct term search followed by hierarchical and other types of browsing. Based on a UNESCO thesaurus.
Lexical Freenet
Search for relationships between words and concepts that might never have occurred to you before.
Roget's Interactive Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus of English words and phrases.
American Society of Indexers - Thesauri Online
Annotated directory.
Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus
An exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations.

sub categories in Thesauri

By Subject By Subject
Thesaurus Construction Thesaurus Construction

cross references

Kids and Teens : School Time : Reference Tools : Thesauri Kids and Teens : School Time : Reference Tools : Thesauri
Reference : Dictionaries : Rhyming Reference : Dictionaries : Rhyming

other references

Reference : Libraries : Library and Information Science : Technical Services : Cataloguing : Authority Control Reference : Libraries : Library and Information Science : Technical Services : Cataloguing : Authority Control

this category in other languages

Tesaurus Catalan : Tesaurus
辭典 Chinese : 辭典
Tesauros Spanish : Tesauros
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