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encyclopaedia

Syllables: en·cy·clo·pae·diaUK/ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpi(ː).di.ə/

encyclopaedia noun: commonwealth standard spelling of encyclopedia.

encyclopaedia: commonwealth standard spelling of encyclopedia
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Noun

encyclopaedia (plural encyclopaedias or encyclopaediae)

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of encyclopedia.

encyclopaedia meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Punjabi

encyclopaedia in Hindi

encyclopaedia
विश्वकोश viśvakoś, ज्ञानकोश jñānkoś

encyclopaedia in Tamil

கலைக் களஞ்சியம், கலைக்களஞ்சியம்

encyclopaedia in Urdu

encyclopaedia, lexicon, dictionary
معجم mu'jam

encyclopaedia in Punjabi

encyclopaedia
ਵਿਸ਼ਵਕੋਸ਼ viśvakoś

Forms of encyclopaedia

pluralencyclopaedias
pluralencyclopaediae

Plural of encyclopaedia: encyclopaedias or encyclopaediae

Origin of encyclopaedia

Borrowed from New Latin encyclopaedia; the English word is an etymologically restored spelling variant of earlier encyclopedia, q.v.

Words formed from encyclopaedia

Phrases with encyclopaedia

Words that rhyme with encyclopaedia

Questions about encyclopaedia

What does encyclopaedia mean?
Encyclopaedia means commonwealth standard spelling of encyclopedia.
What is encyclopaedia in Hindi?
Encyclopaedia in Hindi is विश्वकोश (viśvakoś), ज्ञानकोश (jñānkoś). See Encyclopaedia meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is encyclopaedia?
Encyclopaedia is a noun.
How do you pronounce encyclopaedia?
Encyclopaedia is pronounced /ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpi(ː).di.ə/ (UK).
What is the plural of encyclopaedia?
The plural of encyclopaedia is encyclopaedias.

Words near encyclopaedia in the dictionary

  1. encyclical
  2. encyclical letter
  3. encyclical letters
  4. encyclicals
  5. encyclics
  6. encyclopaedia
  7. Encyclopaedia Galactica
  8. encyclopaediac
  9. encyclopaediacal
  10. encyclopaediae
  11. encyclopaedial

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: encyclopaedia (page history and authors); ज्ञानकोश (Hindi) (page history and authors); encyclopaedia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); معجم (Urdu) (page history and authors); ਵਿਸ਼ਵਕੋਸ਼ (Punjabi) (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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