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Meaning encyclopedia meaning

What does encyclopedia mean?
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encyclopedia

An encyclopedia is a type of book that has information about many things. Often, an encyclopedia is a set of many books and can either be about a specific subject or a range of subjects. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and is the world's largest. I went to the library to find an encyclopedia on chemistry.

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

Synonyms encyclopedia synonyms

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Simple sentences

Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
A revised edition of the encyclopedia was published.
This encyclopedia is issued in monthly parts.
This encyclopedia is beyond the reach of an ordinary student.
This encyclopedia belongs to my wife.
He is, so to speak, a walking encyclopedia.
Are you interested in buying an encyclopedia?
An up-to-date edition of the encyclopedia will come out next month.
Wikipedia is the best encyclopedia on the Internet.
He is, as they say, a walking encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
An encyclopedia is a mine of information.
What's the name of this flower with serrated petals? I tried looking it up in a encyclopedia, but I couldn't get anything.
He's what they call a walking encyclopedia.
Tom is the world's leading expert on stoats, who is credited with having written the most comprehensive encyclopedia to date about them.

Movie subtitles

You see, I wanted to buy an encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia?
You know I can't afford a new encyclopedia so I was looking through the ads in the paper and I got on the wrong page, and I came across this ad, and.
Three more years and our encyclopedia will be finished.
He broke a blood vessel because he found his name was omitted from the Encyclopedia Britannica.
In our encyclopedia, Mr. Totten shall receive an appropriate amount of space.
We have started an encyclopedia, and we shall finish it as thoroughly as is humanly possible.
But, gentlemen, you will hurry and finish the encyclopedia, won't you?
Neither, we are writing an encyclopedia.
An encyclopedia.
I mean the encyclopedia, as a voyage, a long, hard, tedious one.
Miss Totten has decided to discontinue the encyclopedia.
This is my encyclopedia, and I am going to stick with it.
A librarian doesn't encounter much violence except an occasional encyclopedia falling.
Thank you, but we have an encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia? What're you talking about?
A set of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
You couldn't ask for a better encyclopedia.
Believe me, a low-cut neckline does more for a girl's future than the entire Britannica encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia.
The encyclopedia.
We had an encyclopedia.
You are a walking encyclopedia full of information, and I don't want to lose you.
You get a 10-year subscription to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
I think you're an encyclopedia salesman.
I'm geting the encyclopedia.
I prefer Treccani, the best encyclopedia.
I must look it up in the encyclopedia.
This is a clipping from Soviet Encyclopedia.
I'm a walking, talking encyclopedia.
The Encyclopedia Galactica.
They might compile an Encyclopedia Galactica.
Suppose we could browse through that encyclopedia.
Let's look them up in the Galactic Encyclopedia.
Perhaps someday there will be an entry in the Encyclopedia Galactica for our planet.

News and current affairs

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is the most impressive collective intellectual project ever attempted - and perhaps achieved.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia to which anyone with a modicum of time, articulateness, and computer skills can contribute.
Nevertheless, according to University of Chicago Law professor Cass Sunstein, Wikipedia is now cited four times more often than the Encyclopedia Britannica in US judicial decisions.
Building an ontology encapsulating the world's knowledge may be an immense task, requiring an effort comparable to compiling a large encyclopedia and the expertise to build it, but it is feasible.
Hypertexts will render obsolete printed encyclopedia.
Institutions like Wikipedia and Linux are examples of social production that involve very different roles for leaders than do their traditional counterparts, Encyclopedia Britannica and Microsoft.

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