Encyclopedia and Volume

Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia noun - A reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty.
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Volume and encyclopedia are semantically related in book topic. In some cases you can use "Volume" instead a noun "Encyclopedia".

Nearby Words: encyclopedic, encyclopedist

Volume

Volume noun - A set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction.
Usage example: reissued the trilogy in a single volume

Encyclopedia and volume are semantically related in book topic. You can use "Encyclopedia" instead a noun "Volume".

Nearby Words: voluminous, volumetric, volumeter

Both words in one sentence

  • Baron Bodissey's Life in Jack Vance's Gaean Reach novels: it's a twelve-volume-long philosophical encyclopedia which Vance often quotes, at length, for use as chapter headings.
  • Our Angels Are Different The first volume of the encyclopedia series "Man, Myth, and Magic" describes angels and how peoples' perceptions of them changed over time.
  • Manga / Excel Saga Reference Overdosed: The manga makes so many references that each volume of the English translation has a small encyclopedia worth of annotations in the back.
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