Associations to the word «Encyclopaedia»

Wiktionary

ENCYCLOPAEDIA, noun. (chiefly UK) (Australia) Alternative spelling of encyclopedia

Dictionary definition

ENCYCLOPAEDIA, 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.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope