Roget's International Thesaurus - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060935448 ISBN 13: 9780060935443

Publisher: Harperreference, 2002

Synopsis

Based on Peter Roget's classic 1859 reference book, this revised, expanded, and updated thesaurus adds three thousand new words, featuring more than 325,000 entries in 1,072 separate categories and including a wide range of synonyms, antonyms, and related words that reflect the latest in English language usage. Reprint.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A classic reference book that has been used by millions all over the world, Roget's International Thesaurus is the product of more than a century and a half of continual expansion, reorganization, and improvement. Today this book is not only the most time-tested and bestselling thesaurus ever, but, newly revised, it is also the most up-to-date and comprehensive reflection of the English language as it is currently used.

The revolutionary achievement of Dr. Peter Mark Roget's first edition in 1852 was the development of a brand-new principle: the arrangement of words and phrases according to their meanings. Dr. Roget's system brings together in one place all the terms associated with a single thought or concept; it allows a wide-ranging survey of language within a book of relatively modest size, without the space-consuming repetitions that so severely limit the scope of thesauruses arranged in a dictionary format with A-to-Z entries. This brilliant organization makes Roget's International Thesaurus both the most efficient word finder and a cutting-edge aid in stimulating thought, organizing ideas, and writing and speaking more clearly and effectively.

This revised and updated seventh edition features thousands of new words and phrases, including the newest slang words and expressions that color and inform everyday language. At the same time, it retains all the hallmarks that have made Roget's International Thesaurus the most popular word reference book next to the dictionary.

About the Author:

Barbara Ann Kipfer, Ph.D., is a lexicographer who has authored or compiled more than forty books, including the Dictionary of American Slang (with Robert L. Chapman), The Order of Things, Writer's Digest Flip Dictionary, and the bestselling 14,000 Things to Be Happy About. She received her doctorate in linguistics from England's University of Exeter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harperreference
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060935448
• ISBN 13: 9780060935443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1248
• Editor: Kipfer Barbara Ann, Chapman Robert L.