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Nupedia

US/ˌnuːˈpiːdi.ə/

Nupedia proper noun: an expert-written, free-content online encyclopedia operating from 2000 to 2003; parent project of Wikipedia.

Proper noun

Nupedia

  1. An expert-written, free-content online encyclopedia operating from 2000 to 2003; parent project of Wikipedia.

Origin of Nupedia

Possibly from GNU, + -pedia (“encyclopedia”).

Questions about Nupedia

What does Nupedia mean?
Nupedia means an expert-written, free-content online encyclopedia operating from 2000 to 2003; parent project of Wikipedia.
What part of speech is Nupedia?
Nupedia is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Nupedia?
Nupedia is pronounced /ˌnuːˈpiːdi.ə/ (US).

Words near Nupedia in the dictionary

  1. Nuoro
  2. Nuosu
  3. nuova cucina
  4. nup
  5. Nupe
  6. Nupedia
  7. nupercaine
  8. nupharamine
  9. nupharamines
  10. nupharin
  11. nuplex

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Nupedia (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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