encyclopedia
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- n 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
- The first new English-language Catholic encyclopedia in over half a century is a bookmaker's spectacular.
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- While it's treated with disdain in some circles, the user-generated encyclopedia, which just hit 3 million entries, has become one of the Internet's greatest forces.