With 800,000 meanings for 600,000 words organised into more than 230,000 categories and subcategories, the thesaurus is twice the size of Roget’s version.
The 354 categories cover subjects including leisure, authority, education, faith, armed hostility, philosophy, mental capacity, aesthetics, sleeping and waking, matter, the supernatural and relative properties.
Volume 1 is the thesaurus itself, organised according to semantic categories, while Volume 2 is an alphabetical index listing most of its synonyms.
Eventually the project will be linked online with the Oxford English Dictionary, but a date for its completion has yet to be determined.
For all of us word freaks, this is excellent, wonderful, first-class, magnificent, extraordinary, fantastic, stunning, useful, splendid, astonishing, fabulous, wondrous news.
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