Thesaurus
German, noun/teˈzaʊ̯ʁʊs/
Thesaurus is spelled T-H-E-S-A-U-R-U-S (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 57,755th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Thesaurus is a German masculine noun meaning “thesaurus (list of synonyms)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine einsprachige, meist umfangreiche und nach Themen sortierte Wörtersammlung mit Vokabular, dessen Begriffe…”.
What does Thesaurus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethesaurus (list of synonyms)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. eine einsprachige, meist umfangreiche und nach Themen sortierte Wörtersammlung mit Vokabular, dessen Begriffe durch Relationen miteinander verbunden sind 2. in ein Textverarbeitungsprogramm integriertes Synonymwörterbuch 3. Gebäude, in dem Schätze verwahrt wurden
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Thesaurus
- Thesauri plural
- Thesauren plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Thesaurus?
- /teˈzaʊ̯ʁʊs/
- [teˈzaʊ̯ʁʊs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Thesaurus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Thesaurus in German?
Thesaurus appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).