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CYCLOPEDIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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 specialtyplay

Synonyms:

cyclopaedia; cyclopedia; encyclopaedia; encyclopedia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cyclopedia" is a kind of...):

book of facts; reference; reference book; reference work (a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cyclopedia"):

book of knowledge (an elementary encyclopedia dealing with general knowledge)

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