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Old 10-23-2002, 02:09 PM   #29
Urbane Guerrilla
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Yes, there is a synonym for "thesaurus"

But Peter Mark Roget didn't find it. He compiled his Thesaurus in the eighteenth century, and this synonym's style just screams nineteenth:

synonymicon; n., -s [synonym + icon (as in lexicon)]: a lexicon of synonyms

(Webster's Third New International)


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