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 Online Thesaurus of the English Language Online Thesaurus of the English Language
 Purchase of a Thesaurus in Print or on CD-ROM Purchase of a Thesaurus in Print or on CD-ROM
 Online Thesauri Other Than General English Words Online Thesauri Other Than General English Words
 Information About Thesauri and Thesauri Creation Information About Thesauri and Thesauri Creation
 

Online Thesaurus of the English Language "Online Thesaurus of the English Language"


Thesaurus.com - The king of the online thesauri offers a free online search of Roget's Interactive Thesaurus, First Edition, from the Lexico Publishing Group. From this page you can also access Dictionary.com, language resources, tools, a translator, and assorted premium content.

ARTFL Project Roget's Thesaurus Search - Search the headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus, 1911, version 1.02 (supplemented: July 1991) released to the public domain by MICRA, Inc. and the Gutenberg Project, courtesy of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago.

Merriam-Webster Online - Search the Merriam-Webster Dictionary or Thesaurus. It's less thorough than Roget's, but that might be just what you're looking for!

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus - Bartleby.com offers a searchable online version of Roget's II, Third Edition (1995), written by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries.

CLAD Thesaurus - A service of the Clear Language And Design site. You can look up a word in their database, suggest a word that isn't included, or check out their Short Phrase List to find a clearer alternative to a common expression.

Purchase of a Thesaurus in Print or on CD-ROM "Purchase of a Thesaurus in Print or on CD-ROM"


WordWeb - This unique thesaurus/spellchecker program for Windows is available in a cut-down free version or as WordWeb Pro, with word finding, anagram, editing and customization features.

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster's "Collegiate Dictionary and Collegiate Thesaurus" on CD-ROM, audio edition, for families, professionals, students, and educators. Available for Windows and Macintosh.

Top Three Thesaurus Choices for Writers - From Anne Wayman, About.com's Guide for Freelance Writers, here's a list of three of the top general thesauri, with links to help you find the best price to purchase them online.

The NASA Thesaurus - This site contains the authorized subject terms by which the documents in the NASA STI Databases are indexed and retrieved. If you don't know what that means, you probably won't be able to use it, and it's not cheap! There is also a browsable PDF document if you scroll down.

Plumbdesign's Visual Thesaurus - A "three-dimensional" thesaurus that you have to experience to understand. You can learn all about it here, but it's $39.95 to download it to your computer.

Online Thesauri Other Than General English Words "Online Thesauri Other Than General English Words"


Web Thesaurus Compendium Subject Listing - In case what you want isn't listed above, here's a listing of thesauri and other indexing languages sorted according to subjects. If you can't find what you want here, it probably hasn't been created yet. Not updated recently, so it may contain some dead links, but nothing else like it exists.

Latin Dictionaries, Thesauri and Lexica - About Ancient/Classic History Guide N.S. Gill offers suggested links for Greek and Latin language buffs, including two thesauri.

German Thesaurus - About's German Language Guide Hyde Flippo has put together a listing of some common German words and their synonyms. Look for links to other German Language resources here, as well.

Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online - This database contains about 125,000 terms and other information relating to art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, and archival materials, ranging from antiquity to the present.

Maths Thesaurus - Includes short definitions of 4,002 concepts, with 14,583 cross-references between concepts, so it's more than just a thesaurus. Math types will love it. Courtesy of the University of Cambridge.

Information About Thesauri and Thesauri Creation "Information About Thesauri and Thesauri Creation"


Thesaurus Construction - This site run by Prof. Tim Craven of the University of Western Ontario, Canada, presents the basics of constructing an information retrieval thesaurus.

Web Thesaurus Compendium - Everything you ever wanted to know about thesauri on all topics (there's more than one), from archeology to women, including links to various online thesauri, literature and resources, research groups, thesaurus-building tools, and more. Not for the casual reader.

Multi Tes: Thesaurus Construction Made Easy - Multi Tes developed the first computer program for Thesaurus Maintenance on PC's in 1983. On their site you can learn about the software and purchase it if you so desire. The Users Conference link takes you to a listing of papers on the topic which can be viewed in pdf format.

Software for Building and Editing Thesauri - From Willpower Information, here's software for the development and editing of information retrieval thesauri, used to standardise the terms used when indexing and searching for items in a database. Includes an introduction to the principles of thesaurus use.

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