Close-up of the term 'ideal' in a thesaurus. | iStock. Ask a French scholar in the 16th century to see his thesaurus, and he'd gladly give you a copy of his dictionary.

Here are three dictionary and thesaurus alternatives. ... When you search for a word in the Visual Thesaurus, you'll get a display of related words that are mapped by meaning.

"By being able to decode word meaning from the activities of small numbers of brain cells, it may be possible to predict, ...

Work on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae began in 1894 and carries on to this day in a Bavarian palace in Munich, Germany. There's still a long way to go for a project with a soft deadline of 2050.

You will have heard of Roget's Thesaurus, the 1852 reference book by Peter Roget that first listed words in groups organised by meaning. So, you could look up, say, the word 'cold', in Roget, and ...

The site, which also runs Thesaurus.com (aka my best writing friend), announced 566 new entries and 348 new definitions for the fall of 2023 “as the dictionary works to keep pace with the ever ...

(CBS Detroit) Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com are now owned by Detroit billionaire businessman Dan Gilbert's Rock Holdings. The announcement was made Thursday in a press release from Rock Holdings.