as in dictionary
a reference work that contains information about many different subjects or a lot of information about a particular subject
The school library's encyclopedia occupied much of the bookshelf. an encyclopedia of literature
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Wikipedia is paying the price for the AI boom: The online encyclopedia is grappling with rising costs from bots scraping its articles to train AI models, which is straining the site’s bandwidth.
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Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
For over 20 years, Wikipedia has been a free encyclopedia for everyone on the internet.
—Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 11 Mar. 2025
While a recession indicator entry was added to the digital culture encyclopedia Know Your Meme only this month, the jokes have tracked back to at least 2019.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond.
—Katrina Miller, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
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Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
For over 20 years, Wikipedia has been a free encyclopedia for everyone on the internet.
—Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 11 Mar. 2025
While a recession indicator entry was added to the digital culture encyclopedia Know Your Meme only this month, the jokes have tracked back to at least 2019.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond.
—Katrina Miller, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for encyclopedia
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The word was even been added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in the years since.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
23 Apr. 2025
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The only true dictionary is the lost one, the dictionary of the language that perished when the impious tower was built: the original language, God’s language.—
Mariana Dimópulos,
Harpers Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
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There were full spreads in catalogs, commercials on TV, and copies of the books in school libraries everywhere.—
Jaha Nailah Avery,
Essence,
13 May 2025
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All of these ladies have amazing catalogs and music.—
Kailyn Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2025
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Writer Joan Morgan’s book, When Chickenheads Come Home To Roost identified the quandary women have long faced by enjoying hip-hop while being primary targets of their favorite artists’ ire.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
17 May 2025
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His name was invisible for decades, until the exhaustive research of stadiums expert Simon Inglis brought his body of work to life in his 2007 book Engineering Archie.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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That's a textbook explanation for Earth and Jupiter, but the gas giant planet has something extra that makes its auroras significantly more intense.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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This season of ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ is a textbook example of how *not* to handle beef.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
15 May 2025
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“Encyclopedia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encyclopedia. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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