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ENCYCLOPAEDIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 specialty
Synonyms:
cyclopaedia; cyclopedia; encyclopaedia; encyclopedia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("encyclopaedia" 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 "encyclopaedia"):
book of knowledge (an elementary encyclopedia dealing with general knowledge)
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