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Encyclopedic Kind Knowledge Meant Work General Relating Encyclopedia

word encyclopedic
definition (1) Of or relating to an encyclopedia. (2) Covering a wide range of subjects.
eg_sentence Someone with the kind of encyclopedic knowledge she has should be competing on Jeopardy.
explanation In Greek, paidaea meant not simply “child-rearing” but also “education,” and kyklios meant “general”; thus, an encyclopedia is a work broad enough to provide a kind of general education. The world's most eminent general encyclopedia, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, is a huge work that covers every field of human knowledge. But encyclopedic doesn't have to refer to books; it's often used to describe the wide-ranging knowledge that certain types of minds just can't stop acquiring
IPA ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpidɪk

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