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Roget's Thesaurus is composed of six primary classes. [5] Each class is composed of multiple divisions and then sections. This may be conceptualized as a tree containing over a thousand branches for individual "meaning clusters" or semantically linked words.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Roget also appears in Shelagh Stephenson's An Experiment with an Air Pump, set in 1799, as the only historical character. The play is set in the fictional household of Joseph Fenwick, and Roget is one of Fenwick's assistants. [27] A picture-book biography of Roget entitled The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus was published by Eerdmans Books ...
Some of Aristotle's Categories are included in Roget's first class "abstract relations"… I submit the folowing sources: Jamshydf 07:33, 17 August 2008 (UTC) SOURCE: Roget's Thesaurus of English words and phrases, New edition prepared by Susan M Lloyd, Longman, 1985 Preface to the 1982 edition, page vii:
Roget's Thesaurus, a widely used English-language thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget; People. Dominique Mansuy Roget (1760–1832), French knight and baron; Juan Roget (c. 1550–1624), Catalan spectacle maker and possible inventor of the telescope; Leo Roget (born 1977), English footballer; Léon Roget (1858–1909), Belgian soldier and colonial ...
This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...
The French Revolution, A History (1 volume), 1893; Works of Washington Irving; Roget's Thesaurus International; The Dictionary of Business and Finance; a Social Studies Series; The Radio Amateur's Handbook (at least 1964–1970)
The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English , from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates ...