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Meanings of encyclopedia in English

Russian
энциклопедия
Portuguese
enciclopédia escolar
Spanish
enciclopédico
Catalan
enciclopèdies
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Type of reference work.

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энциклопедия
Portuguese
enciclopédia
Catalan
enciclopèdia
Spanish
enciclopedia

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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Usage of encyclopedia in English
1
Not in vain had he mastered the encyclopedia from Safety-lamps to Stranglers.
Aladdin O'Brien
2
The Prime Minister had been running his own neural nanonics encyclopedia search.
The Neutronium Alchemist
3
Currently, a single project, the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia, dominates the wiki genre.
Wired
4
Mr. Simon has written 87 books, including a nine-volume encyclopedia of gastronomy.
The new yorker
5
What are you trying to find in your encyclopedia of criminal activity?
The vaults
6
In 2005, the nonprofit venture is the largest encyclopedia on the planet.
Wired
7
Du Bois to Ghana in 1961 to create an encyclopedia of Africana.
Ebony
8
He ran a search through his neural nanonics encyclopedia file on Hesperi-LN.
The Naked God
9
He was about forty, certainly not 140, as the online encyclopedia claimed.
Relentless
10
The Chinese had their own encyclopedia dating back to the 7th century.
Wired
11
Stables is her younger sister, Lisa, a walking encyclopedia on hooking up.
Reuters
12
A man might know an encyclopedia of facts, but be a failure.
Certain Success
13
She is an encyclopedia of the black music of 50 years ago.
The new yorker
14
Correct Answer: Wikipedia The online encyclopedia any fool can edit was No.
Reuters
15
Santa Maria, Guerra thought, but this guy talked like a freaking encyclopedia.
Salvador strike
16
If students used similar terms, the new encyclopedia would be unnecessary.
The Tyranny Of Words
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