encyclopedianoun [ C ]
also encyclopaedia uk/ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpiː.di.ə/us/ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpiː.di.ə/a book or set of books containing many articles arranged in alphabetical order that deal either with the whole of human knowledge or with a particular part of it, or a similar set of articles on the internet:
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
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Books: reference books
- almanac
- annual
- atlas
- bible
- coursebook
- dictionary
- gazetteer
- grammar
- guide
- guidebook
- handbook
- manual
- peerage
- phrase book
- primer
- textbook
- the Yellow Pages
- thesaurus
- who's who idiom
- yearbook
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