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Latest post Thu, Dec 7 2006 10:05 AM by Mister Micawber. 5 replies.
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Anonymous  +  300158 Sun, 03 Dec 06 02:16 PM

I'm looking for a book where the whole english thesaurus is listed and assorted by subjects (topics).

We have such a book in german but i never heard about something like that in englisch.

I have seen many thesaurus-dictionarys but they are sorted by alphabet and not by subjects.

many thanks, viki.

Mister Micawber  +  300165 Sun, 03 Dec 06 02:36 PM

Roget's Thesaurus as originally published was organized by topics or concepts, but later editions were put into 'dictionary form'.  If you search for a used copy, you may find the style you are looking for.

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Diamondrg  +  300189 Sun, 03 Dec 06 05:16 PM

you want something like

Longman Lexicon of Contemporary English

or

the Lancaster semantic lexicon

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Anonymous, 2 yr 356 days ago

Many thanks, Roget's Thesaurus was exactly what i was looking for, it will be a big help for me. thanks.

Diamondrg, 2 yr 353 days ago

Has this dictionary a category index, too?

http://thesaurus.reference.com/Roget-Alpha-Index.html

Mister Micawber  +  301488 Thu, 07 Dec 06 10:05 AM

No; nor do the newer ones in hard copy.

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