Roget's Thesaurus: Revised and Updated, 6th Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, Robert L. Chapman

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An abridged edition of the world's bestselling original thesaurus. This completely revised and updated edition contains over 230,000 words, nearly three thousand of which are newly added.

The revolutionary achievement of Dr Roget was his development of a brand new principle: the grouping of words according to ideas. If the user cannot find something in a reference book, it is often because of the restriction of searching alphabetically by 'known' headwords. Dr Roget's thesaurus reversed the access to allow the user to find a word from another word, a concept or an idea.

This ultimate reference tool – the best–selling thesaurus ever in all its editions – contains over 230,000 words and phrases, nearly 3000 of which are new to this edition, grouped into 1072 numbered categories. Within each category you'll find all the parts of speech, frequent cross–references, commonly used words singled out in boldface, and much more. If you're a writer who needs help organising a thought or mastering the nuance of expression, the International Thesaurus remains the first source to turn to.

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1 BIRTH

NOUNS 1 birth, genesis, nativity, nascency, childbirth, childbearing, having a baby, giving birth, birthing, parturition, biogenesis, blessed event, the stork; confinement, lying-in, being brought to bed, childbed, accouchement; labor, travail, birth throes or pangs, delivery, blessed event; the Nativity; multiparity; hatching; littering, whelping, farrowing; active birth, alternative birth

VERBS 2 be born, have birth, come forth, issue forth, see the light of day, come into the world; hatch; be illegitimate or born out of wedlock, have the bar sinister; be born on the wrong side of the blanket

3 give birth, bear, bear or have young, have; have a baby, bear a child, have children; drop, cast, throw, pup, whelp, kitten, foal, calve, fawn, lamb, cub, yean, farrow, litter, spawn, lay eggs; lie in, be confined, labor, travail

ADJS 4 born, given birth; hatched; bred, begotten, cast, dropped, whelped, foaled, calved; née; newborn; stillborn; bearing, giving birth The Concise Roget's International Thesaurus 6th Edition. Copyright © by Barbara Ann Kipfer. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.