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".
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- collection and encyclopedia
- collection and volume
- work and encyclopedia
- work and volume
- tract and encyclopedia
- tract and volume
- number and encyclopedia
- number and volume
- treatise and encyclopedia
- treatise and volume
- compendium and encyclopedia
- compendium and volume
- book and encyclopedia
- book and volume
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.
Source: Encyclopedia Exposita -
The first volume of the encyclopedia series "Man, Myth, and Magic" describes angels and how peoples' perceptions of them changed over time.
Source: Our Angels Are Different -
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.
Source: Manga / Excel Saga
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Volume or Encyclopedia. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/encyclopedia/volume.
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