A thesaurus is a book that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning and contains both synonyms and antonyms in contrast to a dictionary which contains definitions and pronunciations. The history of the Thesaurus begins in the fourth century, when the Sanskrit text Amarakosha, a thesaurus in a verse form was written. The first modern thesaurus was compiled in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget, and published in 1852 and was known as the Roget's Thesaurus. The largest thesaurus in the world is the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary which contains more than 920,000 words. Thus to summarise, the Thesaurus is a book of synonyms, often including related and contrasting words and antonyms.
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