encyclopaedia

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun 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

Borrowed from New Latin encyclopaedia; the English word is an etymologically restored spelling variant of earlier encyclopedia, q.v.

Read me something out of the Encyclopaedia!' — The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Pliny especially was his encyclopaedia, his constant companion. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
[1] See article Plutarch, in Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ninth Edition. — Plutarch's Morals, Plutarch

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