encyclopaedia

Noun

Meaning

The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

encyclopedia cyclopaedia dictionary index compendium cyclopedia reference book reference work almanac handbook concordance description survey manual compilation
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Hypernyms

reference reference book reference work book of facts

Hyponyms

book of knowledge

Examples

After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia. Umberto Eco

Admiral Smyth says that no family is quite civilized unless it possesses a copy of some encyclopaedia and a telescope. William Henry Smyth

In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world. Charles Lamb

Source: Shyam Bahadur Varma, ed (2006). Encyclopaedia of Quotations. Prabhat Prakashan. p. 96. Hindi Proverb

According to the encyclopaedia, half of these Irish Americans were descended from Ulster, and half from the other three provinces of Ireland. Source: Internet

According to the Chinese encyclopaedia Cihai (辞海), there is some evidence that the system had been adopted twice, the first time already in the 4th century ( Jin dynasty ), based on a reference by a Jin era astrologer, Fan Ning (範寧 / 范宁). Source: Internet

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