different between encyclopedia vs fula

English

Alternative forms

• encyclopaedia (Britain)
• encyclopædia (archaic)

Etymology

From New Latin encyclopaedia (“general education”), from Renaissance Ancient Greek ?????????????? (enkuklopaideía, “education in the circle of arts and sciences”), a mistaken univerbated form of Koine Greek ????????? ??????? (enkúklios paideí?, “education in the circle of arts and sciences”), from ????????? (enkúklios, “circular”) + ??????? (paideí?, “child-rearing, education”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?n?s??.kl??pi.di.?/
• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?n?sa?.kl??pi(?).di.?/
• Rhymes: -i?di?
• Hyphenation: en?cy?clo?pe?dia

Noun

encyclopedia (plural encyclopedias or encyclopediae or encyclopediæ)

1. A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.

2. (dated) The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge.

Usage notes

The spelling encyclopedia is standard in American English, preferred in Canadian English, accepted in Australian and International English, and also very common in British English. It is more common than encyclopaedia, for example, in UK newspapers on Google News in 2009 by a 7:3 margin.

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Translations

See also

• dictionary

Further reading

• encyclopedia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• encyclopedia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Gothic

Romanization

fula

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Macanese

Etymology

From Marathi ??? (ph?l) (phula)

Noun

fula (plural fufula)

1. flower

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fu?la/

Noun

fula f (singulative, collective ful, paucal fuliet)

1. a broad bean (single seed)

Phuthi

Verb

-fula^?

1. to graze

Inflection

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Portuguese

Noun

fula m (uncountable)

1. Fula (a language spoken in West Africa)

Noun

fula m, f (plural fulas)

1. one of the Fula (West-African people)

Spanish

Noun

fula m (plural fulas)

1. (Cuba, slang) a U.S. dollar.
2. (Cuba, slang, derogatory) a shady person; a person who cannot be trusted

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -²??la

Adjective

fula

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of ful.

Anagrams

• Falu

Volapük

Noun

fula

1. genitive singular of ful