Peter Mark Roget, (born January 18, 1779, London, England died September 12, 1869, West Malvern, Worcestershire), English physician and philologist remembered for his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1852), a comprehensive classification of synonyms or verbal equivalents that is still popular in modern editions. Roget studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and later helped found the medical school at Manchester. In 1814 he invented a “log-log” slide rule for calculating the roots and powers of numbers. From 1808 to 1840 he practiced in London. The first edition of the Thesaurus, which was begun in his 61st year and finished
synonym, word or phrase that has the same meaning as another one. It is formed from the Greek words syn, meaning “together,” and onyma, meaning “name.” Examples of synonyms include clever and intelligent, or attractive and pretty. By contrast, antonyms have the opposite meaning, as exemplified by hot and cold. The cultural wealth of language provides fertile ground for synonymy. English words of Germanic origin, such as abandon and troth, are synonymous with the Latinate terms desert and loyalty, respectively. Loanwords, or borrowings between languages, are exemplified by the use of the French vis-à-vis as a synonym for the English-language
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