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Encyclopaedia

Definition: Encyclopaedia

Encyclopaedia

Noun

1. 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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "encyclopaedia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references)



Synonyms: Encyclopaedia

Synonyms: cyclopaedia (n), cyclopedia (n), encyclopedia (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Encyclopaedia

English words defined with "encyclopaedia": Iconographic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Encyclopaedia

DomainTitle

Books

  • Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Social Work (reference)

  • Encyclopaedia Acephalica: Comprising the Critical Dictionary & Related Texts (Atlas Archive, 3) (reference)

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica 2002 Print Set (reference)

  • Encyclopaedia of the Viking Age (reference)

  • The Friars Club Encyclopaedia of Jokes: 2,000 One-Liners, Straight Lines, Stories, Gags, Roasts, Ribs and Put-Downs (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Encyclopaedia About All In America (reference)

  • Encyclopaedia Of Mathematics On Cd-rom (reference)

  • Encyclopaedia Universalis Includes Supplements (reference)

  • Fairplay World Shipping Encyclopaedia - Cd-rom (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Encyclopaedia

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

[Michael Heidelberger] / P.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films..

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Encyclopaedia

AuthorQuotation

Charles Lamb

In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Encyclopaedia

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The Encyclopaedia, in the last century, was a mine almost on the surface.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Encyclopaedia

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Taiwan's large book market has successfully enticed several U.S. publishers to establish independent branch offices in Taipei, including Encyclopaedia Britannica, McGraw-Hill, and Simon & Schuster. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Encyclopaedia

"Encyclopaedia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.12% of the time. "Encyclopaedia" is used about 138 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)68.12%9433,845
Noun (proper)31.88%4451,500
                    Total100.00%138N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Encyclopaedia

Expression using "encyclopaedia": walking encyclopaedia. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "encyclopaedia": encyclopaedia-like.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Encyclopaedia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

encyclopaedia

112

steroid encyclopaedia

19

encyclopaedia britanica online

7

britanica encyclopaedia

7

encyclopaedia medical

6

encyclopaedia online

5

encyclopaedia orient

4

encyclopaedia judaica

4

catholic encyclopaedia

4

encyclopaedia plant

4

encyclopaedia free

4

encyclopaedia universalis

4

encyclopaedia brittanica

3

encarta encyclopaedia

3

encyclopaedia medical online

2

encyclopaedia probert

2

download encyclopaedia

2

encyclopaedia line

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Encyclopaedia

Language Translations for "encyclopaedia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

enciklopedi (cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopedia, thesaurus), fjalor enciklopedik (encyclopedia). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏موسوعة (encyclopedia), ‏معلمة (encyclopedia, mistress, schoolmistress), ‏دائرة المعارف (encyclopedia). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

енциклопедия (encyclopedia, thesaurus). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

百科全书 (Encyclopedia). (various references)

   

Czech

  

encyklopedie (encyclopedia, reference book), nauèný slovník (encyclopedia). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

encyclopedie (encyclopedia). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

enciklopedio (encyclopedia). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

alfrøðibók (encyclopedia). (various references)

   

French

  

encyclopédie (encyclopedia). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

ensyklopedy (encyclopedia). (various references)

   

German

  

lexikon (dictionary, encyclopedia, lexicon), enzyklopädie (cyclopedia, encyclopedia), Konversationslexikon (encyclopedia). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

enciklopédia (cyclopaedia, encyclopedia), lexikon (cyclopaedia, dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

ensiklopedi. (various references)

   

Italian

  

enciclopedia (encyclopedia). (various references)

   

Manx

  

kicklipaid. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

ensiklopedia. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

encyclopaediaay

   

Portuguese

  

enciclopédia (encyclopedia, encyclopedic, encyclopedical, encyclopedist, thesaurus). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

enciclopedie (cyclopedia, encyclopedia, hold all). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

энциклопедия (cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopedia). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

enciklopedija (encyclopedia). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

enciclopedia (encyclopedia). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

encyklopedi (encyclopedia). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ansiklopedi (cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopedia), ansíklopedí. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

енциклопедія (cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopedia, thesaurus). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bộ sách bách khoa sách giáo khoa về kiến thức chung (cyclopaedia, encyclopedia). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Encyclopaedia

Derivations

Words beginning with "encyclopaedia": encyclopaedias. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Encyclopaedia"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "encyclopaedia" (pronounced unsī'klupē"dēu or unsī'klōpē"dēu)
12u n s ī' k l u p ē" d ē uencyclopedia.
4-ē" d ē umedia, multimedia.
3-d ē uArcadia, bradycardia, cardia, chlamydia, odea, plasmodia, Scandia, stadia.
5-p ē" d ē uencyclopedia.
4-ē" d ē umedia, multimedia.
3-d ē uArcadia, bradycardia, cardia, chlamydia, odea, plasmodia, Scandia, stadia.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Encyclopaedia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-e-i-l-n-o-p-y"

-1 letter: encyclopedia.

-2 letters: cyclopaedia.

-3 letters: cyclodiene, cyclopedia.

-4 letters: concealed, cyclopean, pedocalic.

-5 letters: accolade, alopecia, alopecic, anyplace, calcanei, calcined, calycine, canceled, canopied, codpiece, delicacy, diaconal, ecocidal, epicycle, licenced, lycopene, oedipean, palinode, panicled, penciled, polyenic.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-e-i-l-n-o-p-y"
 

+1 letter: encyclopaedias.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Encyclopaedia


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Quotations: Non-fiction 		9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern 		13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography 		17. Bibliography


  

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