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CYCLOPEDIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cyclopedia mean?
• CYCLOPEDIA (noun)
The noun CYCLOPEDIA has 1 sense:
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
Familiarity information: CYCLOPEDIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
cyclopaedia; cyclopedia; encyclopaedia; encyclopedia
Hypernyms ("cyclopedia" is a kind of...):
book of facts; reference; reference book; reference work (a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cyclopedia"):
book of knowledge (an elementary encyclopedia dealing with general knowledge)
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