encyclopedia
noun/ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpiːdiə/
/ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpiːdiə/
(British English also -paedia)
- a book or set of books giving information about all areas of knowledge or about different areas of one particular subject, usually arranged in alphabetical order; a similar collection of information in digital form
- a children’s encyclopedia
- an encyclopedia of music
- an online encyclopedia
- I looked the Civil War up in my encyclopedia.
- There are over 20 000 entries in the encyclopedia.
- The man is a walking encyclopedia (= knows a lot of facts about different things).
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- online
- illustrated
- medical
- …
- consult
- find something in
- look something up in
- …
- article
- entry
- in an/the encyclopedia
- an entry in an encyclopedia
Word Originmid 16th cent.: modern Latin, from pseudo-Greek enkuklopaideia for enkuklios paideia ‘all-round education’.
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