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encyclopedia: 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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academician collapse: an educator who works at a college or university; a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation; someone elected to honorary membership in an academy

learned man collapse

source book collapse: a collection of historically important documents published together as a book

polyglot collapse: having a command of or composed in many languages; "a polyglot traveler"; "a polyglot Bible contains versions in different languages"

humanist collapse: a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts; an advocate of the principles of humanism; pertaining to or concerned with the humanities; "humanistic studies"; "a humane education"; of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion; "the humanist belief in continuous emergent evolution"- Wendell Thomas

studbook collapse: official record of the pedigree of purebred animals especially horses

schoolman collapse: a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism

telephone book collapse

reference book collapse: a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic"

cyclopedia collapse

casebook collapse: a book in which detailed written records of a case are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work; according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical; "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook example"

student collapse: a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution

classicist collapse: an artistic person who adheres to classicism; a student of ancient Greek and Latin

philologist collapse: a humanist specializing in classical scholarship

phone book collapse

lore collapse: knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote; "early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend"

record book collapse

pundit collapse

litterateur collapse

scholar collapse: a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines; a student who holds a scholarship

gazetteer collapse: a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas); a journalist who writes for a gazette

savant collapse

literature collapse: the profession or art of a writer; "her place in literature is secure"; the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in Russian lit"; creative writing of recognized artistic value; published writings in a particular style on a particular subject; "the technical literature"; "one aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature"

atlas collapse: a figure of a man used as a supporting column; the 1st cervical vertebra; a collection of maps in book form; (Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders

bibliography collapse: a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.)

mastermind collapse: plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery"

scholastic collapse: a Scholastic philosopher or theologian; of or relating to schools; "scholastic year"; of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism; "scholastic philosophy"

directory collapse: an alphabetical list of names and addresses; (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk)

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