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'pedia

'pedia is the clipping of Wikipedia.

Meaning of Wikipedia

Proper noun

Wikipedia (plural Wikipedias)

  1. A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.
    • He joined Wikipedia two years ago.
  2. (metonymically) The community that develops Wikipedia.
    • In August 2009, Wikipedia announced that it planned a move that many saw as a step away from its freewheeling ethos of anyone can edit.2011 May 23, The New York Times
  3. A main-belt asteroid (No. 274301).

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Proper noun capitalized: 'Pedia

the 'Pedia

  1. Alternative letter-case form of 'pedia (“Wikipedia”).
    • OK, the magic words are "Ex post facto law", and the 'Pedia says <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law>: […]2006 February 21, Des Small, “European free speech”, in rec.travel.europe (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 Oct 2025
    • For what it's worth, the 'Pedia of a Million Lies agrees with you: according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteogenesis_Imperfecta, several of the flavours of OI listed have "loose joints" listed as one of the symptoms.2008 June 13, Richard Todd, “I have been CHALLENGED. . .”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 Oct 2025

Forms of 'pedia

alternative form'Pedia

Questions about 'pedia

What is 'pedia the clipping of?
'pedia is the clipping of Wikipedia.
What part of speech is 'pedia?
'pedia is a proper noun.

Words near 'pedia in the dictionary

  1. 'osses
  2. 'our
  3. 'ours
  4. 'ow
  5. 'pataphysics
  6. 'pedia
  7. 'Phags-pa
  8. 'phobe
  9. 'phobes
  10. 'phone
  11. 'phone number

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 'pedia (page history and authors); 'Pedia (page history and authors); Wikipedia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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