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.
See more 1 The encyclopædia says they flourished between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries.
2 There should be at least an atlas, a dictionary, and an encyclopædia .
3 A marvelous encyclopædia of devious Secret Service facts, an ideal tutor.
4 Most of you have or can have an encyclopædia at command.
5 Any encyclopædia , good or bad, will set you on the trail.
6 I'd rather have biceps like Knight's than be a walking encyclopædia !
7 But the one thing I for ever fell back upon was an old encyclopædia .
8 It is not the encyclopædia 's fault that we came back.
9 Quite different from the encyclopædia is another book of reference, "Poole's Index."
10 You do not exist in order to honour literature by becoming an encyclopædia of literature.
11 It is a vast encyclopædia of mediæval learning as concerning God, the Virgin, and the Elect.
12 He is a veritable encyclopædia of the sea.
13 Goodholme, T. S. Domestic encyclopædia of practical information.
14 Thanks, Connie, you are a perfect walking encyclopædia .
15 What do you think I am, anyhow - an encyclopædia ?
16 When we got to the house Amaryllis lugged out an encyclopædia and sought a word in it.
Other examples for "encyclopædia"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Translations for encyclopædia