The word "encyclopaedia" is correct in written English, though "encyclopedia" is more commonly used in American English.
You can use it when referring to a comprehensive reference work containing information on various subjects.
Example: "I consulted the encyclopaedia to find detailed information about ancient civilizations."
Alternatives: "reference book" or "compendium."
She said she was "thrilled" to have spotted a number of her own titles for sale in the shop, and had her eye on an encyclopaedia of London that had just been donated.
It's a neatly designed interface to the popular online encyclopaedia.
New digital channels like BBC Knowledge, which will launch in June, and the vast text-and-vision encyclopaedia we've already made available on the Web are a crucial link between the bedrock radio and television of today and the sort of lives we'll all be living in a few years' time.
Related: Ukip MEP David Coburn banned from Wikipedia indefinitely Editors of the online encyclopaedia had removed most of the pictures and slogans from the pages within about 20 minutes of them first appearing, but not before screengrabs were circulated on Twitter.
But when it comes to recategorising novelists, or vetting changes to individual pages, who actually makes the decisions?Wikipedia advertises itself as a bias-free encyclopaedia which allows any internet denizen to contribute well-sourced facts or modify existing entries.
The premiership might stretch even his stamina too far, though he has a legendary facility for storing an encyclopaedia of facts and arguments in his head.Mr Blunkett's boosters call him the outstanding success of the first term, a minister who really managed to "deliver": higher standards in primary schools, for example, and performance-related pay for teachers.
Searches not only call up websites and images on the same page, but other references, such as Amazon's book search, the Internet Movie Database, and encyclopaedia and dictionary references.
His expertise, he reckons, is in producing and selling the kind of encyclopaedia which people in post-communist countries want.
LATE last month Amanda Filipacchi, an American writer, discovered that the editors of Wikipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopaedia, were re-categorising female American authors from "American Novelists" to to "American Women Novelists".
After much pencil-chewing, a jury of literati this month selected a list of 49 works, from which officials will then choose those books they think appropriate for each family (each will get an encyclopaedia and/or a dictionary).The list comprises fiction and poetry for both adults and children.
Some books are out-and-out rants, while others are organised into encyclopaedia form, so as not to omit any source of outrage.
