What does the word encyclopedia mean?

Usage examples for encyclopedia

  1. Then every one would romp home to look in the Encyclopedia of Authors and find out who in the world Wyclif was. – More Fables by George Ade
  2. Albania, so far as I am aware, is the only country where you can buy a wife on the instalment plan, just as you would buy a piano or an encyclopedia or a phonograph. – The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean by Edward Alexander Powell