Encyclopedia

Noun



 * 1) 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.

Derived terms

 * -pedia

Related terms

 * encyclopedic
 * encyclopedic fiction


 * encyclopedist
 * encyclopedic dictionary

Adjectives for Encyclopedia
skeptical; exhaustive; character; walking; biographical; all-inclusive.

Verbs for Encyclopedia
appear in—; compile—; comprehend—; consult—; discover in—; edit—; employ—; refer to—; require—; scan—; —comprises; —educates; —enlightens; —explains; — illustrates; —informs; —instructs; —specifies ; —teaches.

Thesaurus
atlas, bibliography, body of knowledge, body of learning, calendar, casebook, catalog, catalogue raisonne, city directory, classified catalog, concordance, cyclopedia, diatesseron, dictionary catalog, directory, gazetteer, harmony, index, literature, lore, materials, phone book, polyglot, publications, record book, reference book, source book, store of knowledge, studbook, system of knowledge, telephone book, telephone directory, treasury of information, work of reference

Alternative forms

 * encyclopædia
 * encyclopaedia

Etymology
From encyclopaedia:, from  ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία:, from ἐγκύκλιος:, from κύκλος: + παιδεία:, from παιδίον:.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ensiklopedie
 * Alsatian: Enzyklopädie
 * Arabic: موسوعة
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: entziklopedia
 * Belarusian: энцыклапедыя
 * Bulgarian: енциклопедия
 * Catalan: enciclopèdia
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 百科全書, 百科全书
 * Chuvash:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: entsüklopeedia
 * Faroese: Alfrøðibók
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Gothic: (einkeiklopeidya)?
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: אנציקלופדיה
 * Hindi: ज्ञानकोष, विश्वकोश
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: enciklopedio
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: encyclopedia
 * Irish: ciclipéid
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 百科事典, 大事典
 * Karachay-Balkar: ,


 * Korean: 백과사전 (百科事典)
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: enciklopēdija
 * Limburgish: encyklopedie
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low Saxon: nokieksel
 * Luxembourgish: encyklopedie
 * Malayalam: സര്‍വവിജ്ഞാനകോശം, വിജ്ഞാനകോശം
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: энциклопедия
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: енциклопедија
 * Roman: enciklopedija
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: ensiklopedya
 * Tatar: énsíklopédí
 * Thai: สารานุกรม
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: енциклопедія
 * : (jāme),  (qāmus)
 * Uzbek: ensiklopediya
 * Vietnamese: sách bách khoa (冊百科)
 * Volapük: sikloped, züklopäod
 * Welsh: gwyddoniadur
 * Yakut:

Anagrams

 * encylopædic