Wikipedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɪ.kɪˈpiːdɪə/
ipa: /ˌwɪ.kiˈpidi.ə/
ipa: /ˌwɪkəˈpidi.ə/
rhymes: -iːdiə
Forms: form: Wikipedias
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: There are over five million articles on the English Wikipedia.
text: Work in the open-source software community or contribute to wikipedias on your favourite subjects.
ref: 2005 December 14, Financial Times:
glosses: A version of the encyclopedia Wikipedia in a particular language.
examples: text: His new project is to create a Wikipedia for UFO sightings from all around the world.
text: Likewise, it is much more important to build a complete set of libraries for all aspects of computing, a Wikipedia of free code, than to worry that further language innovation is the gating factor towards any future progress in software.
ref: 2007, Keith Cary Curtis, After the Software Wars, page 166:
text: The library will function something like a Wikipedia of drug discovery, where scientists around the world can contribute to the database and even provide samples or screen drugs themselves, thereby saving millions of dollars on R&D.
ref: 2008 May, Melissa Wenner, “The Drug Resurrector”, in Popular Science, page 41:
text: And when interesting ideas arose, such as creating a Wikipedia of top-secret content for the intelligence community, he provided cover for those ideas to develop.
ref: 2011, Eric Liu, Scott Noppe-Brandon, Imagination First: Unlocking the Power of Possibility, page 155:
glosses: A wiki or similar collaborative database, especially one that is also an encyclopaedia.
examples: text: He learned a lot of things according to his Wikipedia / and demonstrates his ample intellect on social media.
ref: 2018, “A Very Stable Genius”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics), Gilbert and Sullivan (music)performed by Randy Rainbow:
text: We spent our days off huddled in blankets and fleeces on our awful bony couch, listening to the radio and writing in our notebooks or sending emails or ‘doing research’, which for me meant reading the Wikipedias of lesser-known serial killers[…]
ref: 2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: An article or page on Wikipedia.
examples: text: Her mind was a Wikipedia of useless information.
text: We had no illusions of providing a 360° coverage of the sociology of religion, or of confusing a Handbook with a wikipedia.
ref: 2007, James A Beckford, Jay Demerath, The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, page 10:
text: And it is so entertaining when he shares his stories about the other great traders he knows. He is a Wikipedia of trading anecdotes.
ref: 2013, Mike Bellafiore, The PlayBook: An Inside Look at How to Think Like a Professional Trader, page 358:
text: While time had given Britney nothing but a befuddling choice for a (now ex-) husband, children, and headaches, my friend had emerged with a Wikipedia of online dating information.
ref: 2013, Anna Mitchell, Just Don't Call Me Ma'am: How I Ditched the South, Forgot My Manners, and Managed to Survive My Twenties with (Most of) My Dig, page 207:
text: Her brain was a Wikipedia of songs, and she could give anybody a run for the money with music trivia.
ref: 2014, LuAnn McLane, Wildflower Wedding: A Cricket Creek Novel:
text: God does not call us to be spiritual Wikipedias. If we do not know the answers to questions asked, we should say so and offer to research the topic. Our honesty is as important as an excellent answer and reveals that we are still learners.
ref: 2014, Bill Peel, Walt Larimore, Workplace Grace: Becoming a Spiritual Influence at Work, 2nd edition, Longview, TX: LeTourneau Press, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: A source of abundant encyclopedic knowledge.
Synonyms: word: 'pedia
word: Wikipedia
word: Wikipedo
word: WP
word: W'pedia
word: Wackopedia
word: Wackpedia
word: Wackypedia
word: Wankipedia
word: Wickedpedia
word: Wokepedia
word: Wonkypedia