English
The National Scientific Publishers encyclopedia (Polish)
Alternative forms
Noun
encyclopedia (plural encyclopedias or encyclopediae or encyclopediæ)
- A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.
- I only use the library for the encyclopedia, as we’ve got most other books here.
- His life's work was a four-volume encyclopedia of aviation topics.
- (dated) The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge.
Usage notes
The spelling encyclopedia is standard in American English, preferred in Canadian English, accepted in Australian and International English, and also very common in British English. It is more common than encyclopaedia, for example, in UK newspapers on Google News in 2009 by a 7:3 margin.
Derived terms
Related terms
term related to encyclopedia
See also
Translations
comprehensive reference with articles on a range of topics
- Acehnese: ènsiklopèdia
- Afrikaans: ensiklopedie (af)
- Albanian: enciklopedi (sq) f
- Alemannic German: Enzyklopädie
- Amharic: መዝገበ ዕውቀት (mäzgäbä ʿwḳät)
- Arabic: مَوْسُوعَة (ar) f (mawsūʿa)
- Armenian: հանրագիտարան (hy) (hanragitaran)
- Asturian: enciclopedia f
- Azeri: ensiklopediya (az)
- Basque: entziklopedia (eu)
- Belarusian: энцыклапе́дыя f (encyklapjédyja)
- Bengali: বিশ্বকোষ (bn) (bishbakosh)
- Brahui: zántgird
- Breton: holloueziadur
- Bulgarian: енциклопе́дия f (enciklopédija)
- Burmese: စွယ်စုံကျမ်း (my) (cwaicumkyam:)
- Catalan: enciclopèdia (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 百科全書 (zh), 百科全书 (zh) (bǎikē quánshū), 百科事典 (zh) (bǎikēshìdiǎn)
- Chuvash: энциклопеди (entsiklopedi)
- Crimean Tatar: entsiklopediya
- Czech: encyklopedie (cs) f
- Danish: encyklopædi (da), leksikon (da) n
- Dutch: encyclopedie (nl) m
- Esperanto: enciklopedio (eo)
- Estonian: entsüklopeedia
- Faroese: alfrøðibók f
- Finnish: tietosanakirja (fi), ensyklopedia (fi)
- French: encyclopédie (fr) f
- Galician: enciclopedia (gl) f
- Georgian: ენციკლოპედია (enciḳloṗedia)
- German: Enzyklopädie (de) f, Lexikon (de) n, Konversationslexikon (de) n
- Greek: εγκυκλοπαίδεια (el) f (enkyklopaídeia)
- Haitian Creole: ansiklopedi
- Hebrew: אֶנְצִיקְלוֹפֶּדְיָה (he) f (entsiklopédya)
- Hindi: ज्ञानकोष m (jñānkoṣ), विश्वकोश (hi) m (viśvakoś)
- Hungarian: enciklopédia (hu), lexikon (hu)
- Icelandic: alfræðiorðabók (is) f
- Ido: enciklopedio (io)
- Indonesian: ensiklopedia (id)
- Interlingua: encyclopedia
- Irish: ciclipéid f
- Italian: enciclopedia (it) f
- Japanese: 百科事典 (ja) (ひゃっかじてん, hyakkajiten), 百科全書 (ひゃっかぜんしょ, hyakkazensho)
- Karachay-Balkar: энциклопедия
- Kazakh: энциклопедия (éncïklopedïya)
- Khmer: វិជ្ជាសមោធាន (vɨccie saʔmaotʰien), សៀវភៅប្រជុំវិជ្ជា (siǝv pʰɨv prɑcum vɨccie)
- Korean: 백과사전 (ko) (baekgwasajeon) (百科事典 (ko)), 백과전서 (ko) (baekgwajeonseo) (百科全書 (ko))
- Kyrgyz: энциклопедия (ky) (entsiklopediya)
- Lao: ສາລານຸກົມ (lo) (sā lā nu kom)
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- Latin: encyclopaedia f, pandectēs m
- Latvian: enciklopēdija f
- Limburgish: encyklopedie
- Lithuanian: enciklopedija (lt) f
- Low German: nokieksel
- Luxembourgish: encyklopedie
- Macedonian: енциклопе́дија f (enciklopédija)
- Malay: ensiklopedia (ms)
- Malayalam: സര്വവിജ്ഞാനകോശം (sarvavijñānakōśaṃ), വിജ്ഞാനകോശം (ml) (vijñānakōśaṃ)
- Maori: mātāpunenga
- Mongolian: нэвтэрхий толь (nevterhij tolʹ)
- Navajo: ínsadoobíídiiya
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: encyklopedi (no) m
- Nynorsk: encyklopedi m
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: єнкѷклопєдїꙗ f (enkѷklopedija)
- Persian: دانشنامه (fa) (dânešnâmeh), دایرةالمعارف (fa) (dâyeratolma'âref), دائرةالمعارف (dâ'eratolma'âref), آنسیکلوپدی (fa) (ānsiklopedi)
- Polish: encyklopedia (pl) f
- Portuguese: enciclopédia (pt) f
- Romanian: enciclopedie (ro) f
- Russian: энциклопе́дия (ru) f (enciklopédija)
- Rusyn: енціклопе́дія f (enciklopédija)
- Sanskrit: विश्वकोश (sa) (viśvakośa)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: енциклопе́дија f
- Roman: enciklopédija f
- Slovak: encyklopédia f
- Slovene: enciklopedija (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: encyklopedija f
- Upper Sorbian: encyklopedija f
- Spanish: enciclopedia (es) f
- Swahili: kamusi elezo, ensaiklopidia
- Swedish: encyklopedi (sv) c, konversationslexikon (sv) n, uppslagsverk (sv) n
- Tagalog: santalaalaman, ensiklopedya (tl)
- Tajik: энсиклопедия (ensiklopediya), доиратулмаориф (doyiratulmaorif)
- Tatar: энциклопедия (entsiklopediya)
- Telugu: విజ్ఞానసర్వస్వం (vijñānasarvasvaṃ)
- Thai: สารานุกรม (th) (săa-raa-nú-grom)
- Turkish: ansiklopedi (tr)
- Turkmen: ensiklopediýa
- Ukrainian: енциклопе́дія f (encyklopédija)
- Urdu: (please verify)جامع (jāme), (please verify)قاموس (qāmus)
- Uzbek: ensiklopediya (uz)
- Vietnamese: bách khoa toàn thư (vi) (百科全書)
- Volapük: sikloped (vo), (synonym) züklopäod, realasikloped
- Welsh: gwyddoniadur (cy) m
- Yakut: энциклопедия (entsiklopediya)
- Yiddish: ענציקלאָפּעדיע f (entsiklopedye)
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