This revised edition of "Roget's Thesaurus", one of the great reference books of all time, is especially designed for today's writer and reader.

Rogets Thesaurus Of English Words And Phrases New Edition

Reference

Kirkpatrick, Betty

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Penguin Uk

The paperback version of the revised edition, is arranged by idea. Instead of a list of synonyms, Roget offers the user a choice of words connected by spirit, concept and theme, making it indispensable for anyone wishing to write creatively - for fiction, a speech or a CV.

Rogets Thesaurus Of English Words And Phrases (tpb)

Contains a hybrid of late 20th century English and mid-19th century taxonomy as well as significant new words in 2000.

Rogets Thesaurus Of English Words And Phrases Concise Edition

The Oxford College Thesaurus

This thesaurus is an updated addition of Oxford's expanding range of thesauruses. It is geared particularly towards users who are studying, who want a comprehensive thesaurus, but also value practicality and portability. It contains 300,000 alternative words along with a range of other benefits. It provides more help on how to use the different words (through practical example phrases), quick access to the likely options (with the alternatives most closely linked to the meaning of the headword listed first), and an in-text cross-referencing system to take you to other useful entries.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Oxford UP

The first concise format edition of a classic reference work, this contains over 15,000 entries which give the meanings and origin of words, phrases and proper names not covered in conventional dictionaries. The majority of entries provide the history of phrases - from auld lang syne to ZIP code - an account of figures in myth and history - from Abdalla and Alberick to Zephyr and Zuleika - or outline the significance of historic terms in religion, magic, philosophy, literature, geography, mathematics and the sciences - from abracadabra, Albion and Avatar to Zen, Zodiac and zombie. In addition the dictionary includes a miscellany of knowledge - lists of the traditional cries of animals, lists of dwarfs and giants in myth and history, of patron saints, of wedding anniversaries; a glossary of terms in heraldry and an account of how to play Nine Men's Morris.

Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: The Meaning and Origin of Over 15,000 Words, Names and Places (Brewer Dictionaries)

Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Orion Publishing Co

Betty Kirkpatrick has complied and exhaustive dictionary--a must for writers, crossword puzzle buffs, and anyone who is intrigued by language. Sample entries from Cliches Let the cat out of the bag is an idiom cliche meaning to reveal a secret. In origin it refers allegedly to a fairground tick by which traders sold unwary buyers a cat in a bag, assuring them it was a pig. The buyers did not realize their mistake until they let the cat out of the back, by which time it was too late. Bite the bullet is an idiom cliche meaning to steel oneself to accept something distressing. In origin it probably refers to the days before anesthesia, when soldiers wounded in battle were given a lead bullet to bite on to brace themselves against the pain of surgery. Fly off the handle is an idiom cliche meaning to lose one's temper. Originally American, the expression has its origin in an ax or hammer, the handle of which becomes loosened and flies off after it has struck a blow.

Cliches: Over 1500 Phrases Explored and Explained

Words, Language & Grammar

St.Martin's Press

Betty Kirkpatrick has complied and exhaustive dictionary--a must for writers, crossword puzzle buffs, and anyone who is intrigued by language.
Sample entries from Cliches
Let the cat out of the bag is an idiom cliche meaning to reveal a secret. In origin it refers allegedly to a fairground tick by which traders sold unwary buyers a cat in a bag, assuring them it was a pig. The buyers did not realize their mistake until they let the cat out of the back, by which time it was too late.
Bite the bullet is an idiom cliche meaning to steel oneself to accept something distressing. In origin it probably refers to the days before anesthesia, when soldiers wounded in battle were given a lead bullet to bite on to brace themselves against the pain of surgery.
Fly off the handle is an idiom cliche meaning to lose one's temper. Originally American, the expression has its origin in an ax or hammer, the handle of which becomes loosened and flies off after it has struck a blow.

St. Martin's: Griffin

Large Print: Usual Suspects And Cliche

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

A&C Black

Cliches

BLOOMSBURY

This edition provides a complete guide to the English language. It contains synonyms, alternatives and numerous cross-references. The book is designed to appeal to both established word-reference users and younger users. Betty Kirkpatrick is also the author of Cliches"."

The Bloomsbury Thesaurus

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Rogets Thesaurus Of English Words And Phrases New Edition

Rogets Thesaurus Of English Words And Phrases (tpb)

Rogets Thesaurus Of English Words And Phrases Concise Edition

The Oxford College Thesaurus

Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: The Meaning and Origin of Over 15,000 Words, Names and Places (Brewer Dictionaries)

Cliches: Over 1500 Phrases Explored and Explained

Cliches: Over 1500 Phrases Explored and Explained

Large Print: Usual Suspects And Cliche

Cliches

The Bloomsbury Thesaurus