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# encyclopedia

«encyclopedia» in Mova's school dictionary: **a book or a set of books, or a website, with information…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an encyclopedia, encyclopedias); UK also encyclopaedia

### meaning for a pupil

1) An encyclopedia is a book or a set of books, or a website, with information about many subjects, usually in alphabetical order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encyclopedia/#m1)

2) (figurative) A person who knows a lot is sometimes called a walking encyclopedia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encyclopedia/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school and the library pupils use encyclopedias for research projects; online encyclopedias like Wikipedia are written by volunteers. Teachers remind children to check facts in more than one source. Phrases: «look it up in an encyclopedia», «an online encyclopedia», «a walking encyclopedia».

### examples

- Look up «volcanoes» in the encyclopedia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encyclopedia/#x1)
- Our library has a children's encyclopedia of animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encyclopedia/#x2)
- Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encyclopedia/#x3)
- My grandad had a whole shelf of encyclopedias. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encyclopedia/#x4)
- She knows everything about dinosaurs — she's a walking encyclopedia! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encyclopedia/#x5)
- The encyclopedia has a picture of every planet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encyclopedia/#x6)
- Check the encyclopedia and one other source. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encyclopedia/#x7)

### note

Countable: an encyclopedia (use «an»). US spelling: encyclopedia; UK sometimes: encyclopaedia (both correct in the UK). Pronounced «en-SY-kloh-PEE-dee-uh». Adjective: encyclopedic (knowing a lot). Not the same as a dictionary, which explains words, not topics.

### In the corpora

- [The doctor Ibn Sina, known in Europe as Avicenna, wrote a great medical encyclopedia that European universities used for hundreds of years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «encyclopedia» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encyclopedia/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.