Roget
pronunciation
How to pronounce Roget in British English:
UK [ˈrɔʒei]
How to pronounce Roget in American English:
US [roˈʒe, ˈroʒe]
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- Noun:
- English physician who in retirement compiled a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869)
Word Origin
- Roget
- in reference to the "Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases" published 1852 by English physician and philologist Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869). Related: Roget's.
Example
- 1. The man who made lists tells the dark and fascinating story of peter roget , the eccentric victorian physician born into a family marked by melancholia and madness , who escaped by devoting his life to an obsession with categorizing and analyzing words .
- 2. Through analyzing conditions under different control effects , the financing roget phenomenon existing in the listed companies in china is theoretically deduced and economically explained .
- 3. One of his later projects was the creation of wordnet , a database of the english language that philip n. johnson-laird , a princeton colleague , described as a computerized version of " roget 's thesaurus . "