a book or set of books giving information about all areas of knowledge or about different areas of one particular subject, usually arranged in alphabetical order; a similar collection of information in digital form (紙質、網絡或光盤版)百科全書;(某一學科的)專科全書 a children’s encyclopedia 兒童百科全書 an encyclopedia of music 音樂百科全書 an online encyclopedia 一部網絡百科全書 I looked the Civil War up in my encyclopedia. 我在我的百科全書裏查了美國内戰。 There are over 20 000 entries in the encyclopedia. 這部百科全書有兩萬多條目。 The man is a walking encyclopedia (= knows a lot of facts about different things). 這個人是一部活百科全書。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- online
- illustrated
- medical
- …
- consult
- find something in
- look something up in
- …
- article
- entry
- in an/the encyclopedia
- an entry in an encyclopedia
Word Originmid 16th cent.: modern Latin, from pseudo-Greek enkuklopaideia for enkuklios paideia ‘all-round education’.