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Long live the thesaurus!
This week’s Friday round-up post features two items about thesauri (or shall I say thesauruses? It appears I’m not alone with this kind of plural problem. Toyota is still undecided and is asking people...
View ArticleExploring the thesaurus
If you are a regular user of Macmillan Dictionary you are almost certainly familiar with the thesaurus that accompanies every meaning of every word. If you are not, take a few moments to check out a...
View ArticleMacmillan’s thesaurus is a bit different, unusual, special, and unique
A thesaurus, as Macmillan Dictionary defines it, provides ‘lists of words that have similar meanings’. Look up say and you’ll find synonyms like speak, utter, voice, address, and so on. Since every...
View ArticleCelebrating the thesaurus
Yesterday (January 18th) was National Thesaurus Day, marking the birth in 1779 of Peter Mark Roget, the author of the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a collection of words classified by meaning...
View ArticleThesaurus quiz
The Macmillan Thesaurus is a fantastic free resource that until now has been accessed via the dictionary. You can still find links to thesaurus entries at every sense in Macmillan Dictionary, but the...
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