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encyclopaedia

en·cyc·lo·paedia

UK/ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpi(ː).di.ə/ US/ɛn-/ rare

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

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

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