Roget

[ roh-zhey, roh-zhey, rozh-ey ]

noun

1. Peter Mark, 1779–1869, English physician and author of a thesaurus.

Roget

/ ˈrɒʒeɪ /

noun

1. RogetPeter Mark17791869MEnglishMEDICINE: physicianLANGUAGE: lexicographer Peter Mark . 1779–1869, English physician, who on retirement devised a Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1852), a classified list of synonyms

Example Sentences

Father Roget sang, also in French, explaining himself with a humourous skill in pantomime that set the room in a roar.

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We had also a bright, sweet-natured little 193 Frenchwoman, Mlle. Roget, who taught her native language.

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"Stir yourself, man," cried Martin-Roget savagely, as he gripped the fellow by the shoulder and gave him a vigorous shaking.

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"You're a fool," growled Martin-Roget, who of a truth had not taken in as yet the full significance of the man's jerky sentences.

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He knows that my whole life is in your exquisite hands—he knows that our happiness is somehow threatened by that man Martin-Roget.

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