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cyclopædia

cyclopædia is the obsolete spelling of cyclopaedia.

Meaning of cyclopaedia

Noun

cyclopaedia (plural cyclopaedias or cyclopaediae)

  1. (archaic) The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge.
  2. (archaic) An encyclopedia.

Forms of cyclopædia

pluralcyclopædias
pluralcyclopædiæ

Questions about cyclopædia

What is cyclopædia the obsolete spelling of?
Cyclopædia is the obsolete spelling of cyclopaedia.

Words near cyclopædia in the dictionary

  1. cyclopygid
  2. cyclopyrimidine
  3. cyclopyrimidines
  4. cyclopyrrolone
  5. cyclopyrrolones
  6. cyclopædia
  7. cyclopædias
  8. cyclopædist
  9. cyclopædiæ
  10. cyclorama
  11. cycloramas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cyclopædia (page history and authors); cyclopaedia (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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