26984 words

encyclopedia

2 definitions • 2 examples
1
a book or set of books containing many articles arranged in alphabetical order that deal either with the whole of human knowledge or with a particular part of it, or a similar set of articles on the internet:

Examples:

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
The library was full of dictionaries, encyclopaedias, poetry, and plays.
2
a large collection of information about one or many subjects, often arranged alphabetically in articles in a book or set of books, or available through a computer

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