Editing Thesaurus (section)

===Alphabetical===

Other thesauri and synonym dictionaries are organized alphabetically.

Most repeat the list of synonyms under each word.<ref name="longman">''Longman Synonym Dictionary'', Rodale Press and Longman Group, 1986, {{isbn|0582893224}}</ref><ref name="websters">Charlton Laird, Michael Agnes, eds., ''Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus'', Macmillan USA, 3rd edition, 1971, {{isbn|0028632818}}</ref><ref name="oxfordamerican">Christine A. Lindberg, ''The Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English'', Oxford University Press, 1999, {{isbn|0195133757}}</ref><ref name="oxford">''Oxford Thesaurus of English'', 3rd edition, 2009, {{isbn|9780199560813}}</ref>

Some designate a principal entry for each concept and cross-reference it.<ref name="mw">''Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms : Choose Words with Precision'', 1994, {{isbn|0877799067}} uses an asterisk</ref><ref>Henri Bertaud du Chazaud, ''Dictionnaire de synonyms et contraires'', Le Robert "Les Usuels", 1998, {{isbn|2850364568}}</ref><ref>Roger Boussinot, ''Dictionnaire des synonymes, analogies et antonymes'', Bordas 1981, {{isbn|2040120092}}</ref>

A third system interfiles words and conceptual headings. [[Francis March]]'s ''Thesaurus Dictionary'' gives for ''liability'': {{sc|Contingency, Credit–Debt, Duty–Dereliction, Liberty–Subjection, Money}}, each of which is a conceptual heading.<ref name="march">
Francis Andrew March, Francis A. March, Jr., ''March's Thesaurus and Dictionary of the English Language'' (issued under the editorial supervision of [[Norman Cousins]]), Doubleday, 1968, p. 598 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7QUxAQAAMAAJ full text, 1906 edition]</ref> The {{sc|Credit—Debt}} article has multiple subheadings, including Nouns of Agent, Verbs, Verbal Expressions, ''etc.'' Under each are listed synonyms with brief definitions, ''e.g.'' "'''Credit.''' Transference of property on promise of future payment." The conceptual headings are not organized into a taxonomy.

Benjamin Lafaye's ''Synonymes français'' (1841) is organized around [[morphology (linguistics)|morphologically]] related families of synonyms (''e.g.'' ''logis, logement''),<ref>Pierre Benjamin Lafaye, ''Synonymes français'', Paris 1841 [https://books.google.com/books?id=19cSAAAAYAAJ full text]</ref> and his ''Dictionnaire des synonymes de la langue française'' (1858) is mostly alphabetical, but also includes a section on morphologically related synonyms, which is organized by prefix, suffix, or construction.<ref name="lafaye"/>