Encyclopaedia

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Commonwealth standard spelling of encyclopedia.
  2. 2
    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 wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin encyclopaedia; the English word is an etymologically restored spelling variant of earlier encyclopedia, q.v.

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