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類義語辞典 (ruigigojiten) Japanese meaning: thesaurus | Kotomora

類るい義ぎ語ご辞じ典てん

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Meanings

1

A reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning.

類るい義ぎ語ご辞じ典てんで「美うつくしい」の類るい義ぎ語ごを調しら

べ

た

。

I looked up synonyms for 'beautiful' in a thesaurus.

Kanji

類sort, kind, variety
義righteousness, justice, morality
語word, speech, language
辞resign, word, term
典code, ceremony, law

Related words

シソーラス
Katakana loanword for 'thesaurus', often used in computational or technical contexts, while 類義語辞典 is the native Japanese term.
辞じ典てん
General term for 'dictionary' or 'lexicon'; 類義語辞典 is a specific type of 辞典.

Built from

類るい義ぎ語ご+辞じ典てん

Etymology

Compound of 類義語 (るいぎご, 'synonym') + 辞典 (じてん, 'dictionary').