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What does encyclopedic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word encyclopedic? Here's what it means.

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  1. Of or relating to the characteristics of an encyclopedia; concerning all subjects, having comprehensive information or knowledge.
  2. (lexicography) Relating to or containing descriptive information rather than only linguistic or lexical information; about facts and concepts, and not only a word or term; including proper names, biographical and geographical information and illustrations.
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If you believe a public library is a majestic bastion of encyclopedic tomes, then you have not been inside one for a very long time.
Over the years he developed an encyclopedic knowledge of this literature and an uncanny knack for introducing the right book to the right reader at the right time.
Mungo's decades of experience reporting on politics have furnished him with an encyclopedic knowledge of the Australian scene, past and present.
As a consequence, the text is more readable than most encyclopedic treatments.
Being film scholars was beneficial because between the both of us we have an encyclopedic knowledge of the film noir genre.
Over the following decades, the anthropologist described the theistic beliefs of primitive cultures around the world in encyclopedic detail.

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