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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky