encyclopaedia

Other spellings

• encyclopedia

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA ^(key): /ənˌsəɪ.kləˈpi.di.ə/
• (UK) (US) IPA ^(key): /ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpi(ː).di.ə/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: en‧cy‧clo‧pae‧di‧a

Noun

Singular encyclopaedia

Plural encyclopaedias or encyclopaediae

Some books of an encyclopaedia

1. (countable) An encyclopaedia is a type of book that has information about many things. Often, an encyclopedia is a set of many books and can either be about a specific subject or a range of subjects.

   Wikipedia is an online encyclopaedia and is the world's largest.

   I went to the library to find an encyclopaedia on chemistry.

Related words

• encyclopaedic