Glossary vs Thesaurus - What's the difference?
glossary | thesaurus |
A list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with their definitions.
A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language.
(archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
(information science) A hierarchy of subject headings—canonic titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
As nouns the difference between glossary and thesaurus
is that glossary is a list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with their definitions while thesaurus is thesaurus.glossary
English
(wikipedia glossary)Noun
(glossaries)Synonyms
* (l) * (l) * (l)Derived terms
* bilingual glossarythesaurus
English
(wikipedia thesaurus)Noun
(en-noun)- "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus'' that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.