The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is the largest thesaurus in the world, conceived and compiled by the English Language Department of the University of Glasgow. The HTE is a complete database of all the words in the second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside types and dates of use.

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  • The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is the largest thesaurus in the world, conceived and compiled by the English Language Department of the University of Glasgow. The HTE is a complete database of all the words in the second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside types and dates of use. It is the first historical thesaurus to be compiled for any of the world's languages and contains 800,000 meanings for 600,000 words, within 230,000 categories, covering more than 920,000 words and meanings, and making it double the size of Roget’s version. As its website states, "the Thesaurus will be equally valuable in linguistic studies, where it will contribute essential information to the study of meaning and change of meaning, and will also be relevant in such fields as the history of ideas and cultural history. " The HTE has been in progress since 1965 and will be published on October 22, 2009, after 44 years of work. It will consist of two slipcased hardcover volumes, totaling nearly 4,500 pages. It will also eventually be available online, linked to the Oxford English Dictionary.
  • 英語歴史シソーラス（Historical Thesaurus of English,HTE）はオクスフォード英語辞典（OED）第二版に採録されている単語を意味、時代ごとに分類したデータベースである。グラスゴー大学で1964年より編纂が開始された。およそ65万項目。オクスフォード大学出版局（OUP）より電子版および書籍版が刊行される予定になっている。
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  • The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is the largest thesaurus in the world, conceived and compiled by the English Language Department of the University of Glasgow. The HTE is a complete database of all the words in the second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside types and dates of use.
  • 英語歴史シソーラス（Historical Thesaurus of English,HTE）はオクスフォード英語辞典（OED）第二版に採録されている単語を意味、時代ごとに分類したデータベースである。グラスゴー大学で1964年より編纂が開始された。およそ65万項目。オクスフォード大学出版局（OUP）より電子版および書籍版が刊行される予定になっている。
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  • Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
  • 英語歴史シソーラス
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