thesaurus

work listing words grouped into categories in part topical and in part semantic, e.g. Roget's thesaurus (not thesaurus from information science)
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thesaurus

Summary

thesaurus is a field of study[1]. thesaurus draws 314 Wikipedia views per month (field_of_study category, ranking #58 of 379).[2]

Key Facts

  • thesaurus's instance of is recorded as field of study[3].
  • Roget's Thesaurus is named after thesaurus[4].
  • thesaurus is a type of dictionary[5].
  • thesaurus's Commons category is recorded as Thesauri[6].
  • thesaurus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Thesauri[7].
  • thesaurus's partially coincident with is recorded as thesaurus[8].
  • thesaurus's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'linguistic thesaurus'}[9].
  • thesaurus's different from is recorded as thesaurus[10].
  • thesaurus's different from is recorded as Thesaurus[11].
  • thesaurus's different from is recorded as synonym dictionary[12].
  • thesaurus's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13].
  • thesaurus's model item is recorded as Roget's Thesaurus[14].

Body

Definition and Type

thesaurus's instance of is recorded as field of study[3]. thesaurus is a type of dictionary[5].

Origins

Roget's Thesaurus is named after thesaurus[4].

Why It Matters

thesaurus draws 314 Wikipedia views per month (field_of_study category, ranking #58 of 379).[2] thesaurus has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] thesaurus is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . books.google.com. books.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . books.google.com. books.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of
    Different from thesaurus, Thesaurus, synonym dictionary
    Named after
    Aliases
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 7404, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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