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American  
[sahy-kluh-pee-dee-uh] / ˌsaɪ kləˈpi di ə /
Sometimes cyclopaedia

noun

  1. an encyclopedia.


cyclopedia British  
/ ˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪə /

noun

  1. a less common word for encyclopedia

"Collins 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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Etymology

Origin of cyclopedia

First recorded in 1630–40; by shortening

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He is concerned, he says, to complete “a cyclopedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great metropolis”.

From The Guardian May 8, 2017

"I can put anything to music, including the en cyclopedia," he once remarked, with an engaging lack of diffidence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Twentieth century Negro literature; or, A cyclopedia of thought on the vital topics relating to the American Negro, by one hundred of America's greatest Negroes.

From The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter by Porter, Dorothy B.

In Hart’s Manual of English Literature, one of Tennyson’s poems is named “The Vision of Art,” and a recent German cyclopedia makes him the author of “Tristam and Iseult.”

From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Parsons, Eugene

There is a cyclopedia for which the price is over $100.

From Work for Women by Manson, George J.

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