Encyclopedic dictionaries
Some works entitled "dictionaries" are actually similar to encyclopedias, especially those concerned with a particular field (such as the Dictionary of the Middle Ages, the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, and Black's Law Dictionary). The Macquarie Dictionary, Australia's national dictionary, became an encyclopedic dictionary after its first edition in recognition of the use of proper nouns in common communication, and the words derived from such proper nouns.
Differences between encyclopedias and dictionaries
There are some broad differences between encyclopedias and dictionaries. Most noticeably, encyclopedia articles are longer, fuller and more thorough than entries in most general-purpose dictionaries.[2][15] There are differences in content as well. Generally speaking, dictionaries provide linguistic information about words themselves, while encyclopedias focus more on the thing for which those words stand.[3][4][5][6] Thus, while dictionary entries are inextricably fixed to the word described, encyclopedia articles can be given a different entry name. As such, dictionary entries are not fully translatable into other languages, but encyclopedia articles can be.[3]
In practice, however, the distinction is not concrete, as there is no clear-cut difference between factual, "encyclopedic" information and linguistic information such as appears in dictionaries.[5][15][16] Thus encyclopedias may contain material that is also found in dictionaries, and vice versa.[16] In particular, dictionary entries often contain factual information about the thing named by the word.[15][16]
Largest encyclopedias
As of the early 2020s, the largest encyclopedias are the Chinese Baike.com (18 million articles) and Baidu Baike (16 million), followed by English Wikipedia (6 million), German (+2 million) and French Wikipedia (+2 million), all of which are wholly online.[17][circular reference] More than a dozen other Wikipedias have 1 million articles or more, of variable quality and length.[17][circular reference] Measuring an encyclopedia's size is esoteric, since the online Chinese encyclopedias cited above allow multiple articles on the same topic, while Wikipedia's accept only one single common article per topic.[citation needed]
hat they are: Articles in encyclopedias, either in print or online. Encyclopedias gather information from other sources and summarize that information. What they give you: An overview of a topic, and citations to other sources.
Citizendium.
Encyclopædia Britannica.
Encyclopaedia Hebraica.
Encyclopaedia Metallum.
Everipedia.
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia. Funk & Wagnalls, Inc.
The Columbia Encyclopedia in one volume. 1940. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Wikipedia.
There are two titles: the title of the encyclopedia (e.g. "Wikipedia") and the title of the article (e.g. "France").
The article is a summary of the most basic facts about a certain topic.
The title of the article is not a full sentence. ...
There are usually citations at the end of the art
Are there articles in encyclopedia?
Encyclopedias are divided into articles or entries that are arranged alphabetically by article name or by thematic categories, or else are hyperlinked and searchable by random access. Encyclopedia entries are longer and more detailed than those in most dictionaries.
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The earliest encyclopedic work to have survived to modern times is the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, a Roman statesman living in the 1st century AD. He compiled a work of 37 chapters covering natural history, architecture, medicine, geography, geology, and all aspects of the world around him. This work became very popular in Antiquity, was one of the first classical manuscripts to be printed in 1470, and has remained popular ever since as a source of information on the Roman world, and especially Roman art, Roman technology and Roman engineering.
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