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encyclopedia
[ en-sahy-kluh-pee-dee-uh ]
noun
- a book, set of books, optical disc, mobile device, or online informational resource containing articles on various topics, usually in alphabetical arrangement, covering all branches of knowledge or, less commonly, all aspects of one subject.
- Encyclopedia, the French work edited by Diderot and D'Alembert, published in the 18th century, distinguished by its representation of the views of the Enlightenment.
encyclopedia
/ ɛnˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪə /
noun
- a book, often in many volumes, containing articles on various topics, often arranged in alphabetical order, dealing either with the whole range of human knowledge or with one particular subject
a medical encyclopedia
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Example Sentences
I had buzzed around the wiki flower for a while, and then pollinated the free-encyclopedia flower.
Wales next tried an idea that reflected his childhood love of the World Book: an online encyclopedia.
I joke that I started as a kid revising the encyclopedia by stickering the one my mother bought.
Reading the Encyclopedia Brittanica while walking the Appalachian Trail!
In Paris, Kis completed his last work, The Encyclopedia of the Dead, a wonderful collection of fablelike stories.
He was not an encyclopedia, but a compact volume of naked logic.
That was after we read about the Cyclopes in the Ulysses story in our encyclopedia.
The encyclopedia mentioned all of them but did not mention Crimson at all.
The statement of the "Encyclopedia Britannica," that Argentina had a hundred million sheep in 1866 is quite incredible.
This list has great possibilities for club study, especially if there is the encyclopedia, so essential for reference.
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