Wikipedia
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɪ.kɪˈpiːdɪə/
ipa: /ˌwɪ.kiˈpidi.ə/
ipa: /ˌwɪkəˈpidi.ə/
rhymes: -iːdiə
Forms: form: Wikipedias
form: Wikipediaing
form: Wikipediaed
form: Wikipediaed
form: wikipedia
form: Wikipaedia
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wiki
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Ancient Greek ἐν (en)
Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-)
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios)
Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλῐος (enkúklĭos)
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pā́wits
Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs)
Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)
Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)
Ancient Greek παιδεύω (paideúō)
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek παιδείᾱ (paideíā)
Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā)bor.
New Latin encyclopaedīabor.
English encyclopedia
blend
English Wikipedia
Blend of wiki + encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger in 2001.
Senses: examples: text: Did a bit of Wikipediaing: […]
ref: 2004 January 7, Mike Pitt, “Re: (Non-Euros/SAs Only) How did you become a lover of football?”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet):
text: Is everybody in this group incapable of arithmetic, Googling, and Wikipediaing?
ref: 2005 August 18, Edward Cherlin, “Re: Slow Re-entry”, in rec.arts.sf.science (Usenet):
text: A little Wikipediaing could've told him that—sometimes it feels like I'm the only one willing to do the research.
ref: 2021, Michael Burrows, Where the Line Breaks, Fremantle Press, →ISBN:
text: I mean, honestly, it was me doing some Wikipediaing.
ref: 2021, Mike Roe, quoting Tami Sagher, The 30 Rock Book: Inside the Iconic Show, from Blerg to EGOT, Abrams, →ISBN:
glosses: To consult Wikipedia for information.
examples: text: I mean, it's true, if Katie Holmes had not become engaged to Tom Cruise, we'd all still be Wikipeidaing her, looking her up, trying to figure out exactly why do I know her, what was she in, is she famous?
ref: 2006 November 17, Paula Zahn Now, spoken by Rachel Maddow, CNN:
text: He made me curious enough that I Wikipediaed Bob Satterfield and found out, yes, he was a real fighter, nicknamed the Bombadier, and was KO'd by the Raging Bull himself in a 1946 fight in Wrigley Field.
ref: 2009, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 363:
text: That’s a true fact, you can Wikipedia that shizz.
ref: 2010 April 7, Jeff K., “Like a Drunk One Legged Pirate Stores His Rum, The aTable Stores Your Cords”, in CraziestGadgets.com:
text: […] her mother was "homeschooling" her via the Internet (basically, Wikipediaing the Important Facts from the History of the World, and ordering appropriate-level math textbooks from Amazon) […]
ref: 2010, Rachel Cohn, chapter 3, in Very Lefreak, Random House, →ISBN:
text: If you wikipedia "dead", it says that it is the permanent termination of all biological functions that sustain living organisms. What it doesn't tell you is how to cope with that.
ref: 2013, Dave Cole, Straight A's, spoken by Charles (Riley Thomas Stewart):
text: Honestly, I had to Wikipedia him, but he seems all right.
ref: 2024 July 20, Ethan Meyers, quoting Isaiah White, “Trump’s return to rally stage met with prayers, excitement and confusion over JD Vance”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2024:
glosses: To search Wikipedia for information on a specific subject.