encyclopedia

Etymology
From, variant of , a univerbated form of , from + , q.v. Nearly all modern English use of the word influenced by the scope and format of  & al.'s  .

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) Similarly comprehensive works in other formats.
 * 3)  The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge.
 * 1) Similarly comprehensive works in other formats.
 * 2)  The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge.
 * 1)  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, common in Canadian English, accepted in Australian and International English, and also very common in British English although nonstandard.

Translations

 * Acehnese: ènsiklopèdia
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Alemannic German: Enzyklopädie
 * Amharic: መዝገበ ዕውቀት
 * Arabic:, دَائِرَة مَعَارِف
 * Moroccan Arabic: موسوعة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: enciclopedia
 * Azerbaijani: qamus,, biliklik
 * Arabic: قاموس
 * Bakhtiari: دونسمندنامه
 * Baluchi: زانتنامہ, زانتگرد
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: энцыклапе́дыя, энцыкляпэ́дыя
 * Bengali: এনসাইক্লোপিডিয়া
 * Brahui: zántgird
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: енціклопе́дія
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 百科全書, 百科事典
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chuvash: энциклопеди
 * Crimean Tatar: entsiklopediya
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: содамкундо
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: alfrøðibók
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ენციკლოპედია
 * German:, , ; Realencyclopädie, Realwörterbuch
 * Gilaki: دانشنامه‌
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πανδέκτης
 * Gurani: زانستنامە
 * Haitian Creole: ansiklopedi
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ज्ञानकोष,, , , इनसाइक्लोपीडिया
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:, ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: ciclipéid
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada: ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ
 * Karachay-Balkar: энциклопедия
 * Kazakh: энциклопедия
 * Khmer: វិជ្ជាសមោធាន, សៀវភៅប្រជុំវិជ្ជា
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: زانستنامە
 * Laki: زانستنۆمە
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Southern Kurdish: زانستنامە
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: encyclopaedīa, pandectēs
 * Latvian: enciklopēdija
 * Limburgish: encyklopedie
 * Lithuanian:
 * Livvi: tiedosanakniigu
 * Low German: nokieksel
 * Luxembourgish: Enzyklopedie
 * Macedonian: енциклопе́дија
 * Malay:, jagat katan
 * Malayalam: സര്‍വവിജ്ഞാനകോശം,
 * Maori: mātāpunenga
 * Mazanderani: دانشنومه
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: нэвтэрхий толь
 * Nahuatl:
 * Navajo: ínsadoobíídiiya
 * Northern Luri: دونسمنامٱ
 * Northern Sami: diehtosátnegirji
 * Northwestern Ojibwa: gikendamowin-mazina'igan
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: encyklopedi
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: єнкѷклопєдїꙗ
 * Ossetian: энциклопеди
 * Ottoman Turkish: محیطالمعرف
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, , دائِرَةُالْمَعارِف,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਵਿਸ਼ਵਕੋਸ਼
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: енциклопе́дија
 * Roman: enciklopédija
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: encyklopedija
 * Upper Sorbian: encyklopedija
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kamusi elezo, ensaiklopidia
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: santalaalaman,
 * Tajik:, доиратулмаориф, энсиклопедия
 * Tatar: энциклопедия
 * Telugu: విజ్ఞానసర్వస్వం
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་མཛོད, རིག་མཛོད
 * Tigrinya: ኢንሳይክሎፐድያ, መዝገበ ፍልጠት
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ensiklopediýa
 * Ukrainian: енциклопе́дія
 * Urdu: دائِرَۃُ الْمَعارِف, کِتابُ الْمَعارِف,, اِنْسائِیکِلوپِیڈْیا
 * Uyghur:, ئېنسىكلوپېدىيە, ئېنىسىكلوپېدىيە
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: (百科全書)
 * Volapük:, züklopäod, realasikloped
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: ensyklopedy
 * Yakut: энциклопедия
 * Yiddish: ענציקלאָפּעדיע
 * Zazaki: ensiklopediye
 * Zealandic: encyclopedie