wikipedia
Syllables: Wi·ki·ped·ia/ˌwɪ.kɪˈpiːdi.ə//ˌwɪ.kiˈpidi.ə/
wikipedia is the alternative letter-case form of Wikipedia.
Proper noun capitalized: Wikipedia
Wikipedia (plural Wikipedias)
- A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.
- He joined Wikipedia two years ago.
- Shopping online for deals on some writable media / I edit Wikipedia2006, “White & Nerdy”, in Straight Outta Lynwood, performed by “Weird Al” Yankovic
- The community that develops Wikipedia.
- In August 2009, Wikipedia announced that it planned a move that many saw as a step away from its freewheeling ethos of anyone can edit.2011 May 23, The New York Times
- Wikipedia mounted a 24-hour protest starting at midnight by converting their English page to a shadowy black background and warning readers that "the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet."2012 January 19, Reuters
- Synonyms:
- 'pedia, Wikipedo, WP, W'pedia, Wackopedia, Wackpedia, Wackypedia, Wankipedia, Wickedpedia, Wokepedia
- A main-belt asteroid (No. 274301).
Noun capitalized: Wikipedia
Wikipedia (plural Wikipedias)
- A version of the encyclopedia Wikipedia in a particular language.
- There are over five million articles on the English Wikipedia.
- Work in the open-source software community or contribute to wikipedias on your favourite subjects.2005 December 14, Financial Times
- A wiki or similar collaborative database, especially one that is also an encyclopaedia.
- His new project is to create a Wikipedia for UFO sightings from all around the world.
- Likewise, it is much more important to build a complete set of libraries for all aspects of computing, a Wikipedia of free code, than to worry that further language innovation is the gating factor towards any future progress in software.2007, Keith Cary Curtis, After the Software Wars, page 166
- An article or page on Wikipedia.
- He learned a lot of things according to his Wikipedia / and demonstrates his ample intellect on social media.2018, “A Very Stable Genius”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics), Gilbert and Sullivan (music)performed by Randy Rainbow
- We spent our days off huddled in blankets and fleeces on our awful bony couch, listening to the radio and writing in our notebooks or sending emails or ‘doing research’, which for me meant reading the Wikipedias of lesser-known serial killers[…]2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN
- A source of abundant encyclopedic knowledge.
- Her mind was a Wikipedia of useless information.
- We had no illusions of providing a 360° coverage of the sociology of religion, or of confusing a Handbook with a wikipedia.2007, James A Beckford, Jay Demerath, The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, page 10
Verb capitalized: Wikipedia
Wikipedia (third-person singular simple present Wikipedias, present participle Wikipediaing, simple past and past participle Wikipediaed)
- To consult Wikipedia for information.
- Did a bit of Wikipediaing: […]2004 January 7, Mike Pitt, “Re: (Non-Euros/SAs Only) How did you become a lover of football?”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet)
- Is everybody in this group incapable of arithmetic, Googling, and Wikipediaing?2005 August 18, Edward Cherlin, “Re: Slow Re-entry”, in rec.arts.sf.science (Usenet)
- To search Wikipedia for information on a specific subject.
- I mean, it's true, if Katie Holmes had not become engaged to Tom Cruise, we'd all still be Wikipeidaing her, looking her up, trying to figure out exactly why do I know her, what was she in, is she famous?2006 November 17, Paula Zahn Now, spoken by Rachel Maddow, CNN
- He made me curious enough that I Wikipediaed Bob Satterfield and found out, yes, he was a real fighter, nicknamed the Bombadier, and was KO'd by the Raging Bull himself in a 1946 fight in Wrigley Field.2009, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 363
Synonyms of wikipedia
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Forms of wikipedia
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wikipedias |
| plural | Wikipedias |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wikipedias |
| present participle | wikipediaing |
| past participle | wikipediaed |
| past | wikipediaed |
| third-person singular present | Wikipedias |
| present participle | Wikipediaing |
| past participle | Wikipediaed |
| past | Wikipediaed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Wikipedias |
| alternative form | wikipedia |
| alternative form (nonstandard) | Wikipaedia |
Origin of wikipedia
Blend of wiki + encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger in 2001. By surface analysis, wiki + -pedia.
Words formed from wikipedia
Words that rhyme with wikipedia
Questions about wikipedia
- What does wikipedia mean?
- Wikipedia means a free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.
- What is wikipedia the alternative letter-case form of?
- Wikipedia is the alternative letter-case form of Wikipedia.
- What part of speech is wikipedia?
- Wikipedia can be a proper noun, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce wikipedia?
- Wikipedia is pronounced /ˌwɪ.kɪˈpiːdi.ə/ (UK).
Words near wikipedia in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wikipedia (page history and authors); Wikipedia (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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