Definition of Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia

Alt. of Encyclopaedia

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Alt, Encyclopaedia, Of

Encyclopedia Quotations

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Stephen Leacock

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
Karl Kraus

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.
Robert Anton Wilson

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.
Tracy Kidder

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
Jimmy Wales

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.
Mario Batali

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.
Charles Van Doren

My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.
Jimmy Wales

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Encyclopedia Translations

encyclopedia in Dutch is encyclopedie
encyclopedia in German is Konversationslexikon, Lexikon
encyclopedia in Norwegian is konversasjonsleksikon
encyclopedia in Spanish is enciclopedia

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