encyclopedia
a book, set of books, optical disc, mobile device, or online informational resource containing articles on various topics, usually in alphabetical arrangement, covering all branches of knowledge or, less commonly, all aspects of one subject.
Encyclopedia, the French work edited by Diderot and D'Alembert, published in the 18th century, distinguished by its representation of the views of the Enlightenment.
Origin of encyclopedia
1- Sometimes en·cy·clo·pae·di·a .
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Wales next tried an idea that reflected his childhood love of the World Book: an online encyclopedia.
I joke that I started as a kid revising the encyclopedia by stickering the one my mother bought.
Reading the encyclopedia Brittanica while walking the Appalachian Trail!
In Paris, Kis completed his last work, The encyclopedia of the Dead, a wonderful collection of fablelike stories.
He was not an encyclopedia, but a compact volume of naked logic.
Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel | Frank G. AllenThat was after we read about the Cyclopes in the Ulysses story in our encyclopedia.
A World Called Crimson | Darius John GrangerThe encyclopedia mentioned all of them but did not mention Crimson at all.
A World Called Crimson | Darius John GrangerThe statement of the "encyclopedia Britannica," that Argentina had a hundred million sheep in 1866 is quite incredible.
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British Dictionary definitions for encyclopedia
encyclopaedia
/ (ɛnˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪə) /
a book, often in many volumes, containing articles on various topics, often arranged in alphabetical order, dealing either with the whole range of human knowledge or with one particular subject: a medical encyclopedia
Origin of encyclopedia
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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