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Library of Congress Thesauri - Links to multiple LOC thesauri, including GLIN, the Global Legal Information Network.
Zthes: a Z39.50 Profile for Thesaurus Navigation - Describes an abstract model for representing and searching thesauri, specifying how the model may be implemented. Uses of Z39.50 protocol and XML DTD for thesauri are described.
American Society of Indexers - Thesauri Online - Annotated directory.
Thesaurus.com - Searchable online version of Roget's Thesaurus of English words and phrases.
Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases - 85,000 hyperlinked cross-references, plus proverbs and quotations from classic and modern authors.
Mathematical Thesaurus - Defines mathematical words and concepts, and indicates the links between them.
Wordsmyth - A dictionary and thesaurus in one. Also gives parts of speech and examples for more than 50,000 words.
WWWebster Thesaurus - Searchable online thesaurus from Merriam-Webster.
Roget's II - The New Thesaurus - Contains 35,000 synonyms, succinct word definitions and a hyperlinked category index.
Ergane - A translating dictionary.

Nighantu - Nighantu (nighaṇṭu) is a Sanskrit term for a traditional collection of words, grouped into thematic categories, often with brief annotations. Such collections share characteristics with glossaries and thesauri, but are not true lexicons, such as the kośa of Sanskrit literature.
ISO 2788 - ISO 2788 is an ISO international standard intended to ensure consistent practice within a single indexing agency, or between different agencies. The official title of the standard is "Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri.
SKOS - SKOS or Simple Knowledge Organisation System is a family of formal languages designed for representation of thesauri, classification schemes, taxonomies, subject-heading systems, or any other type of structured controlled vocabulary. SKOS is built upon RDF and RDFS, and its main objective is to enable easy publication of controlled structured vocabularies for the Semantic Web.
Controlled vocabulary - Controlled vocabularies are used in subject indexing schemes, subject headings, thesauri and taxonomies. Controlled vocabulary schemes mandate the uses of predefined, authorised terms that have been preselected by the designer of the controlled vocabulary as opposed to natural language vocabularies where there is no restriction on the vocabulary that can be used.