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Encyclopedia Galactica

Encyclopedia Galactica proper noun: a compendium of all knowledge, or most of the important knowledge, an encyclopedia for a galaxy-spanning civilization.

Proper noun

Encyclopedia Galactica

  1. A compendium of all knowledge, or most of the important knowledge, an encyclopedia for a galaxy-spanning civilization.

Forms of Encyclopedia Galactica

alternative formEncyclopaedia Galactica
alternative formEncyclopædia Galactica

Origin of Encyclopedia Galactica

Blend of Encyclopedia Britannica (“Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica”) + galactic.

Questions about Encyclopedia Galactica

What does Encyclopedia Galactica mean?
Encyclopedia Galactica means a compendium of all knowledge, or most of the important knowledge, an encyclopedia for a galaxy-spanning civilization.
What part of speech is Encyclopedia Galactica?
Encyclopedia Galactica is a proper noun.

Words near Encyclopedia Galactica in the dictionary

  1. encyclopaedism
  2. encyclopaedist
  3. encyclopaedists
  4. encyclopaedy
  5. encyclopedia
  6. Encyclopedia Galactica
  7. encyclopediac
  8. encyclopediacal
  9. encyclopediae
  10. encyclopedial
  11. encyclopedialike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Encyclopedia Galactica (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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