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ENCYCLOPEDIA

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• ENCYCLOPEDIA (noun)
The noun ENCYCLOPEDIA has 1 sense:

1. 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

Familiarity information: ENCYCLOPEDIA used as a noun is very rare.

• ENCYCLOPEDIA (noun)

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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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

cyclopaedia; cyclopedia; encyclopaedia; encyclopedia

Hypernyms ("encyclopedia" is a kind of...):

book of facts; reference; reference book; reference work (a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "encyclopedia"):

book of knowledge (an elementary encyclopedia dealing with general knowledge)

"The only stupid question is the one that is not asked."
(English proverb)
"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."
(Native American proverb, Sioux)
"Stinginess demeans the value of man."
(Arabic proverb)
"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth."
(Corsican proverb)

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