encyclopedia

encyclopedia — noun

1. a book, set of books, or website that provides articles on many areas of knowled

1.名詞B1
釋義

a book, set of books, or website that provides articles on many areas of knowledge, with entries sorted alphabetically

例句

Yara used an online encyclopedia to research the history of Korean ceramics.

collocation: online encyclopedia

The old encyclopedia on the bottom shelf has an article about the first moon landing.

同義詞
  • reference work

    broader term that includes dictionaries, atlases, and almanacs; less specific than encyclopedia

  • compendium

    more formal; often refers to a single-volume collection of key information rather than a multi-volume set

文法句型

encyclopedia of [subject]

用法筆記

Takes 'an' rather than 'a' as the indefinite article because the word starts with a vowel sound. British English speakers sometimes use the spelling 'encyclopaedia,' though 'encyclopedia' is now standard worldwide.

常見錯誤

❌I checked the encyclopedia for the meaning of the word.
✅I checked the dictionary for the meaning of the word.
💡An encyclopedia gives detailed articles about topics; a dictionary gives short definitions of individual words.