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In the early 19th century, archaeologists borrowed the Latin word thesaurus to denote an ancient treasury, such as that in a temple. Soon after, the word was metaphorically applied to a book containing a treasury of words or information about a particular field. In 1852, the English scholar Peter Mark Roget published his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, in which he listed a treasury of semantically related words organized into numerous categories. This work led to the common acceptance of the term thesaurus to refer to "a book of words and their synonyms." The word developed another meaning in the 1950s, when thesaurus began being used in the field of Recent Examples on the Web The consensus among these experts is that AI, while a clear labor threat, will become a baseline tool for comedy writers, like a thesaurus or a search engine. — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023 Newell — having absorbed the whole vocal thesaurus of diva riffs, shouts, gurgles and growls — stops the show. — Jesse Green, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023 The thesaurus! — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2022 Then somebody stole my thesaurus. — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2022 Somebody hand me a thesaurus. — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 10 Mar. 2021 Accordingly, to try to describe the near $110 billion the US has pledged to Ukraine in the last year sends one scrambling for a thesaurus. — Thomas Sadoski, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023 The novels McCarthy published in 202...

Some Differences Between Synonyms and Antonyms The English language (and, we may presume, many other languages) has both antonyms and synonyms. There are many more words with synonyms than there are words with antonyms, since many things exist which do not have an opposite (the word sandwich, for instance, may be said to have synonyms in the words hoagie, grinder, submarine, and many other words, but there is no opposite of sandwich). Antonym is also a much more recent addition to English than synonym is; it first appeared in the 1860s, whereas synonym has been used for more than 500 years. Additionally, both nouns have adjectival forms: synonymous and antonymous. Synonymous, which is often used loosely ("She has become synonymous with good taste"), is the more common of the two. I very much enjoyed the chapter on obscenity, which asks the difficult question of how words deemed taboo differ from their inoffensive synonyms … . It can't obviously be the referent of the term, since that is the same, and it isn't merely that the taboo words are more accurately descriptive … — Colin McGinn, The New York Review of Books, 27 Sept. 2007 Recent Examples on the Web Understandably, failure, or some synonym of the sort, can creep into consciousness when taking into account all the Bucks accomplished then subsequently lost. — Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023 Apparently, Hulu shows with three-word titles beginning with a synonym for small are just her thing. — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 1 ...