Meaning

1 senses

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of encyclopedia.

More definitions
  • a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty

Examples

3 sentences

  1. This encyclopaedia is convenient for looking up things.

    deDieses Lexikon ist praktisch, um Dinge nachzuschlagen.

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  2. She's a living encyclopaedia.

    ruОна живая энциклопедия.

    deSie ist eine lebende Enzyklopädie.

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  3. And how do you expect me to know that? I'm not an encyclopaedia.

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Origin

Borrowed from New Latin encyclopaedia; the English word is an etymologically restored spel

Borrowed from New Latin encyclopaedia; the English word is an etymologically restored spelling variant of earlier encyclopedia, q.v.

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Forms

plural: encyclopaedias / encyclopaediae

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty:encyclopediacyclopediacyclopaedia

Lessons for this word

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
encroachencryptencryptionencumberC2encyclopediaB1encyclopedicendA1
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