Dr. Roget described his thesaurus in the foreword to the first edition:
Roget's Thesaurus is composed of six primary classes. Each class is composed of multiple divisions and then sections. This may be conceptualized as a tree containing over a thousand branches for individual "meaning clusters" or semantically linked words. These words are not exactly synonyms, but can be viewed as colours or connotations of a meaning or as a spectrum of a concept. One of the most general words is chosen to typify the spectrum as its headword, which labels the whole group.
Roget's Thesaurus can be seen as a classification system, as evidenced by the Outline from the 1911 US edition, now in the public domain.
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