noun
Meaning 1
Commonwealth standard spelling of encyclopedia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
encyclopaedia
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Canada, UK, US: /ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpi(ː).di.ə/
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Canada, UK, US: /ɛn-/
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -iːdiə
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CMU ARPABET: IH0 N S AY2 K L AH0 P IY1 D IY0 AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: IH0 N S AY2 K L OW0 P IY1 D IY0 AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: encyclopedia, cyclopedia, cyclopaedia
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reference book, reference, reference work, book of facts
Narrower terms: book of knowledge
History
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin encyclopaedia; the English word is an etymologically restored spelling variant of earlier encyclopedia, q.v.
Real reading context