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General Thesauruses
ABC-CLIO History Reference Online
Click on the link and then click on the “DICTIONARY” to find out the Thesaurus entry. (Free).
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Bartleby.com > Reference > American Heritage® Collection > Roget’s > II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
Containing 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features
succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index. (Free).
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Bartleby.com > Reference > Roget’s > International Thesaurus
Mawson’s modernization of the classic structure becomes even more user-friendly on Bartleby.com with 85,000
hyperlinked cross-references. Additionally, over 2,200 quotations from classic and modern authors illustrate the
1,000-plus entries. (Free).
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Information Please
On-Line Internet encyclopedia. (Free).
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MSN Encarta Thesaurus
Online home of the Encarta encyclopedia. (Free).
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wordIQ.com
An online encyclopedia with more than 400,000 pages of content. (Free)
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Thesauruses in Other Subjects
Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus
National Institutes of Health thesaurus. Provides resource for medical, social, and demographic terms related to
alcohol and drug use. (Free).
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Art and Architecture Thesaurus
Getty's terms, as used in several AAT indexes. (Free).
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The Astronomy Thesaurus
Astronomical terms. Searches may be performed in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. (Free).
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Babynames Thesaurus
Provides the meaning of more than 10,000 names. (Free).
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CAS General Subject Vocabulary Helper
Extensive listings for chemistry. Produced by Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical
Society. (Free).
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Concept Space
Management education thesaurus from the London Business School organizes terms into a solar system of related
ideas. (Free).
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Eurodic Autom
European Union terminology. Available on most European Union languages. (Free).
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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Structured vocabulary of place names. (Free).
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Maths Thesaurus
Definitions of common mathematical terms, along with broader, narrower, and related concepts. (Free).
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NASA Thesaurus
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Thesaurus. Extensive coverage of scientific terms. (Free).
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Thesaurus of Musical Instruments
Over a thousand instruments, with relational links based on the Library of Congress Subject Headings. (Free).
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Directories of Thesauruses
Library of Congress Thesauri
Links to multiple LOC thesauri, including GLIN, the Global Legal Information Network. (Free).
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LIS Links > Thesauruses
It provides links to some thesauruses in Library and Information Science. The list is prepared by Badan Barman for Library and Information Science students.
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