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cyclopedia

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

Cumulative service to Blashfield's cyclopedia of automobile law, 1929.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1956 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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

From Work for Women by George J. Manson

But he soon found question after question to ask that the cyclopedia did not answer.

From Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio by Wayne Whipple

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