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Meanings of encyclopædia in English
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.
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Examples for "encyclopedia"
Examples for "encyclopedia"
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Not in vain had he mastered the encyclopedia from Safety-lamps to Stranglers.
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The Prime Minister had been running his own neural nanonics encyclopedia search.
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Currently, a single project, the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia, dominates the wiki genre.
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Mr. Simon has written 87 books, including a nine-volume encyclopedia of gastronomy.
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What are you trying to find in your encyclopedia of criminal activity?
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What Charlie don't have in his pants pocket ain't in the 'cyclopedia.
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The magazines fulfil the same function; every one of them is a penny cyclopedia.
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But he soon found question after question to ask that the cyclopedia did not answer.
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From a cyclopedia learn the character of the political organization of Mexico and the Central American states.
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He would have liked to read all the books in the library-buthe started in on a cyclopedia.
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An astonishing woman that; a cyclopaedia of the day's small talk.
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Practically, none of the cyclopaedia previously accessible in our language has now much value.
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He had read vastly; his memory was a literary cyclopaedia.
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Next to this very convenient subdivision of topics, the most striking merit of the new cyclopaedia is, perhaps, comprehensiveness.
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The sharp Bohemian, by playing at all trades, brushing against gentry of all sorts and scouring all neighborhoods, becomes at length a living cyclopaedia.
Usage of encyclopædia in English
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The encyclopædia says they flourished between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries.
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There should be at least an atlas, a dictionary, and an encyclopædia.
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A marvelous encyclopædia of devious Secret Service facts, an ideal tutor.
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Most of you have or can have an encyclopædia at command.
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Any encyclopædia, good or bad, will set you on the trail.
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I'd rather have biceps like Knight's than be a walking encyclopædia!
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But the one thing I for ever fell back upon was an old encyclopædia.
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It is not the encyclopædia's fault that we came back.
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Quite different from the encyclopædia is another book of reference, "Poole's Index."
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You do not exist in order to honour literature by becoming an encyclopædia of literature.
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It is a vast encyclopædia of mediæval learning as concerning God, the Virgin, and the Elect.
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He is a veritable encyclopædia of the sea.
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Goodholme, T. S. Domestic encyclopædia of practical information.
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Thanks, Connie, you are a perfect walking encyclopædia.
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What do you think I am, anyhow-anencyclopædia?
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When we got to the house Amaryllis lugged out an encyclopædia and sought a word in it.
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