The Intenet edition of Roget's Thesaurus. Search for words or browse alphabetically and by word category. Translations are available to and from English to Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Russian, Hungarian, and Welsh. You also get extra goodies such as background on the word's formation, a list of related words from The Word Spy database, quotations on words and language, and more. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept.
Different relations link the synonym sets.
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