/ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpiːdi.ə/ · noun
A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field..
I only use the library for the encyclopedia, as we’ve got most other books here.
My old encyclopedia has been gathering dust on the shelf for the past decade.
The Encyclopedia which we are presenting to the public is, as its title declares, the work of a society of men of letters. Were we not of their number, we might venture to affirm that they are all favorably known or worthy of being so.
The first encyclopædia written in English and with the articles alphabetically arranged was the ‘Lexicon Technicum,’ […] [in 1704], by John Harris, a London clergyman. This was a useful and popular work, though it omitted from its scope theology, biography, antiquity and poetry.
It would be easier to compile an encyclopedia for you than to write these longhand letters whose ink blackens the night.
[The Origins] can best be summarized, maybe, as an encyclopedia in the guise of an etymological dictionary, by a writer already centuries removed from some of his material.
Encyclopedias were the original worldwide web. […] There was a time when you couldn't connect to the rest of the world and encyclopedias gave you that insight and they contained what people knew about everything.
Pliny the Elder’s Natural History is a go-to source for understanding what ancient Romans believed about the world and the model for every encyclopedia since.
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Encyclopedia means A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field..
Common synonyms include encyclopaedia, cyclopedia, cyclopaedia.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I only use the library for the encyclopedia, as we’ve got most other books here.
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