encyclopedia

encyclopedia
(BrE also -paedia) noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ online
▪ illustrated
▪ medical
▪ baseball, football, etc. (esp. AmE)
VERB + ENCYCLOPEDIA
▪ consult, find sth in, look sth up in, use
▪ compile, write
▪ edit
▪ publish
ENCYCLOPEDIA + NOUN
▪ article, entry
PREPOSITION
▪ in an/the encyclopedia
▪

I looked the Civil War up in my encyclopedia.

PHRASES
▪ an entry in an encyclopedia
▪

There are over 20 000 entries in the encyclopedia.


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  • Encyclopedia — • An abridgment of human knowledge in general or a considerable department thereof, treated from a uniform point of view or in a systematized summary Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Encyclopedia     Encyclopedia …   Catholic encyclopedia

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  • Encyclopédia — Création 2 avril 1996 Slogan «  La chaîne de la connaissance  » Langue Français Pays d origine …   Wikipédia en Français

  • encyclopedia — index hornbook Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 encyclopedia …   Law dictionary

  • Encyclopedia — En*cy clo*pe di*a, Encyclopaedia En*cy clo*p[ae] di*a, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, for ? ?, instruction in the circle of arts and sciences: cf. F. encyclop[ e]die. See {Cyclopedia}, and {Encyclical}.] [Formerly written {encyclop[ae]dy} and… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Encyclopedia — This article is about the type of reference work. For other uses, see Encyclopedia (disambiguation). Brockhaus Enzyklopädie in 1902 An encyclopedia (also spelled encyclopaedia or encyclopædia) is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a… …   Wikipedia

  • encyclopedia — noun /ənˌsəɪkləˈpidiə,ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpi(ː).diə/ A comprehensive reference work with articles on a range of subjects. I only use the library for the encyclopedia, we’ve got most other books here. See Also: encyclopedic, encyclopedic fiction,… …   Wiktionary

  • Encyclopedia Nipponica — (日本大百科全書, Nihon dai hyakka zensho, literally the “Japan Comprehensive Encyclopedia”), the paper based encyclopedia, was first published in 1984 from Shogakukan. The first edition of Encyclopedia Nipponica included 25 volumes and was completed in… …   Wikipedia

  • Encyclopedia of Esperanto — may refer to three different attempts of creating an encyclopedia of all Esperanto topics. A modern version of this might be the [http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%88efpa%C4%9Do Vikipedio] (Esperanto Language Wikipedia) or the Enciklopedio… …   Wikipedia

  • Encyclopedia Talmudit — (Hebrew: אנציקלופדיה תלמודית) is an encyclopedia that aims to summarize the halakhic topics of the Talmud in alphabetical order. It began in 1942 and is still an active project as of 2008.Formation of the encyclopediaThe project began on the… …   Wikipedia

  • Encyclopedia Americana — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Propaganda de la Enciclopedia Americana, en 1921. La Encyclopedia Americana es una de las mayores enciclopedias generales en el idioma inglés, después de la Encyclopædia Britannica. Como su nombre sugiere, es… …   Wikipedia Español

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