Spanish translation of 'encyclopedia'
noun
la enciclopedia
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The bots are simple computer programs that are written to make the encyclopedia better.
After graduation she worked as a writer of encyclopedia texts.
Spending time with him is like living with an encyclopedia.
He was a walking encyclopedia about competing freedoms and formulating law.
He contracted tuberculosis at an early age and spent a year reading encyclopedias during his recovery.
Meg liked his quiet manners and considered him a walking encyclopedia of useful knowledge.
He literally blew the dust off an old medical encyclopedia to discover what my allergy was.
You get a little understanding of this process when you remember the last time you looked at a medical encyclopedia.
One example of the "open source" phenomenon is the successful online encyclopedia known as Wikipedia.
Bosses at the nation's domestic intelligence agency asked the online encyclopedia to erase the piece.
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a medical encyclopedia
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British English: encyclopedia
/ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpiːdɪə/ NOUN
An encyclopedia is a book or a set of books containing facts about many different subjects.
- American English: encyclopedia /ɪnsaɪkləˈpidiə/
- Brazilian Portuguese: enciclopédia
- Chinese: 百科全书
- European Spanish: enciclopedia
- French: encyclopédie
- German: Enzyklopädie
- Italian: enciclopedia
- Japanese: 百科事典
- Korean: 백과사전
- European Portuguese: enciclopédia
- Latin American Spanish: enciclopedia
- Thai: สารานุกรม
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