![]() For clarity, each category is printed the full width of the page and set off in a box while the synonym listings are printed at half-page width. It combines in one easy-to-use alphabetical list categories (very much like those in Roget’s original thesaurus) and a list of words with their close synonyms. This edition of Roget’s Thesaurus is both a dictionary of synonyms and a thesaurus, or “treasury,” of related words. ![]() Roget’s son, have revised the original Thesaurus, added to it, and brought it up to date (for many of the words in the original Roget list are now obsolete and many common words of today were unknown in his time) but virtually every edition is still called Roget’s Thesaurus in honor of the man who first had the idea. Not only writers, but also many others found it invaluable. There were not many words in the first Roget’s Thesaurus compared to the number in a volume like this, but his book was the first collection of synonyms, antonyms, and other related words. He called the book a thesaurus, or treasury, of words. Every word he knew or could find in the dictionaries he had was classified in one or more of these categories. Roget made a thousand different groups, or categories, of related words. Some were related because they were synonyms, such as illegal and unlawful some because they were antonyms, such as peaceful and warlike some because they were reminders of one another, such as father and mother. As a hobby he liked to make lists of words and group them together when they were related to one another. How to use this thesaurus PETER MARK ROGET was an English physician who was born in 1779 and who died in 1869. Morehead and Loy Morehead, who together were responsible for the original work on which this volume is based. And finally, I would like to acknowledge the hard work of my late father and mother, Albert H. Thanks to my long-suffering wife, Patricia Morehead, composer and oboist, who put up with my endless hours at the computer. Thanks are also due to Sarah Manges, who ably picked up this project from Hugh and has been of great help to me in its completion. The editor would like to give special thanks to Hugh Rawson, my former editor at New American Library for almost twenty years, who initiated this project and guided me through many others over the years. Morehead, 2001 All rights reserved REGISTERED TRADEMARK-MARCA REGISTRADA Library of Congress Catalog Card Number for the Penguin Reference hardcover edition of this title: 2001036039 Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. Morehead, 1958, 1962 Copyright © Andrew T. Third revised edition previously published as The Penguin Roget’s College Thesaurus in Dictionary Form. ![]() Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182–190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Published by Signet, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc. SIGNET Published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. ![]() Atwood, Betty Brinkerhoff, Elizabeth MacLean, Associate Editors. Staff for The New American Roget’s College Thesaurus Jack Luzzatto and Loy Morehead, Editors William C. Morehead, Chairman and General Editor Waldemar Von Zedtwitz, President Loy C. Originally prepared and edited by The National Lexicographic Board Albert H. Previously published as The Penguin Roget’s College Thesaurus in Dictionary Form NEW AMERICAN ROGET’S COLLEGE THESAURUS IN DICTIONARY FORM Third Revised Edition Prepared by ![]()
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