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encyclia venosa |
encyclic |
encyclical |
encyclical letter |
encyclopædia |
encyclopaedia
| encyclopaedic
| encyclopaedism
| encyclopaedist
| encyclopedia
| encyclopediacal
encyclopaedia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun encyclopaedia has 1 sense
- encyclopaedia(n = noun.communication) cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopedia - 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; Array is a kind of book of facts, reference, reference book, reference work
has particulars: book of knowledge
OXFORD DICTIONARY
encyclopaedia, n. (also encyclopedia) a book, often in several volumes, giving information on many subjects, or on many aspects of one subject, usu. arranged alphabetically.
Etymology
mod.L f. spurious Gk egkuklopaideia for egkuklios paideia all-round education: cf. ENCYCLICAL
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