International Thesaurus - Hardcover

Roget, Peter Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0690000111 ISBN 13: 9780690000115

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1979

Synopsis

Roget's International Thesaurus is the most comprehensive and useful thesaurus available today. It is a true thesaurus. It remains faithful to the original system of word association put forward by Dr Peter Mark Roget in the nineteenth century-a concept that has proved so fundamental and valuable that it is being used in research to simulate human intelligence in computers

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0690000111
• ISBN 13: 9780690000115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1317