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Roget

Roget refers to Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), a British physician and lexicographer best known for creating Roget's Thesaurus.

In 1852 he published Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate

Roget's Thesaurus popularized semantic organization of vocabulary and influenced later reference works and language teaching. It

Beyond the Thesaurus, Roget's work helped spur interest in semantic networks and taxonomy in lexicography. The

the
Expression
of
Ideas
and
Sentiments
in
Pleasant
and
Useful
Language.
The
work
proposed
a
method
for
finding
words
by
concept
rather
than
by
alphabetical
order,
organizing
entries
into
a
hierarchical
taxonomy
of
classes,
sections,
and
paragraphs
to
group
related
ideas
and
terms.
has
undergone
numerous
revisions
and
editions,
including
modern
Roget's
International
Thesaurus,
and
remains
widely
used
by
writers,
editors,
and
students.
Although
it
complements
dictionaries,
it
is
not
a
dictionary
of
definitions;
rather,
it
provides
lists
of
related
terms
and
nuances
of
meaning
that
vary
by
context.
name
Roget
has
since
become
closely
associated
with
a
categorized
collection
of
synonyms
and
related
words.