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.
雙語例句
1. At the entry for " kill " , my thesaurus lists " murder " , " assassinate " and " waste " .
我的同義詞詞典在kill條目中列出murder, assassinate, waste 詞條.
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2. Use a thesaurus to find synonyms for two of your words.
使用詞典找到你的詞匯中的兩個同義詞.
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3. Molly: Two of them are language dictionaries, one a synonym thesaurus.
莫莉: 兩本是字典, 另一本是同義詞典.
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4. The inner bootstrapping utilizes Synonymy Thesaurus to expand pattern semantics.
內自舉借助通用的《同義詞詞林》擴張模式的語義范圍.
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5. A thesaurus is a book of synonyms and antonyms.