Urdang Laurence. The Oxford Compact Thesaurus

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. — 732 p. — ISBN: 0-19-860120-4The idea of publishing the Oxford Thesaurus, on which this Compact edition is based, was first broached to me in 1986. The book was originally to have been some 300,000 words in length; for various reasons, it was subsequently agreed to increase its size, and the book you are holding contains approximately 650,000 words. Although Janet Whitcut and Sue Lloyd read the entire text and checked it for conformity to British idiom, the ultimate responsibility for the Thesaurus rests with me, not only for errors of omission and commission but for any benefits that I hope might be derived from its use.