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encyclopædia

encyclopædia noun: dated spelling of encyclopaedia.

encyclopædia: dated spelling of encyclopaedia
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Noun

encyclopædia (plural encyclopædias or encyclopædiæ)

  1. Dated spelling of encyclopaedia.

Forms of encyclopædia

pluralencyclopædias
pluralencyclopædiæ

Words formed from encyclopædia

Phrases with encyclopædia

Questions about encyclopædia

What does encyclopædia mean?
Encyclopædia means dated spelling of encyclopaedia.
What part of speech is encyclopædia?
Encyclopædia is a noun.
What is the plural of encyclopædia?
The plural of encyclopædia is encyclopædias.

Words near encyclopædia in the dictionary

  1. encyclopedized
  2. encyclopedizes
  3. encyclopedizing
  4. encyclopediæ
  5. encyclopedy
  6. encyclopædia
  7. Encyclopædia Galactica
  8. encyclopædiac
  9. encyclopædiacal
  10. encyclopædial
  11. encyclopædian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: encyclopædia (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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