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encyclopedist

encyclopedist

1 8.8
A person who writes or edits detailed articles for a big book of facts
  • noun
  • /ˌɛn.sɪ.kləˈpiː.dɪst/
: enciclopedista
  • Paraphrasing a sentence of Pauw's, the great Encyclopedist Abb Raynal famously opined: "America has not yet produced a good poet, an able mathematician, one man of genius in a single art or a single science."

Examples

  • There is not any controversy over this definition, not among dictionaries and lexicographers, English linguists, encyclopedias and encyclopedists.

    Blog text (19)
  • The following is an entry reprinted from The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror, written by the World Fantasy Convention 2012 Encyclopedist Guest of Honor, John Clute.

    Blog text (5)
  • Certainly, there must exist encyclopedists who know the dates and names of these inventors.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • Pliny and Macrobius were encyclopedists.

    Blog text (19)
  • To these, Hayek opposed the intellectuals of the French Enlightenment, which included the Encyclopedists, the Physiocrats, Condorcet, and especially Rousseau.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Both Rousseau and Froebel, of course, had predecessors, notably the seventeenth-century Protestant (Moravian) encyclopedist John Amos.

    Blog text (1)
  • While images of the latest styles proliferated in Paris and throughout the provinces, intellectuals and writers ranging from the Encyclopedists to moralists addressed the matter with increasing urgency.

    Academic text (2007)
  • An accomplished encyclopedist, she has contributed numerous articles to many well-known encyclopedias.

  • The encyclopedist spent years compiling the latest scientific discoveries into a comprehensive volume.

  • As an encyclopedist, his role involves writing detailed entries about historical events for the encyclopedia.

Synonyms

writer
vsencyclopedist
∞ 1.0

A person who creates books, articles, or stories

focuses on writing for encyclopedias rather than creating general texts
editor
vsencyclopedist
∞ 3.0

A person who chooses and corrects the final text in a newspaper, magazine, or book

applies editorial work specifically to encyclopedias rather than general publishing oversight
compiler
vsencyclopedist
2 5.4

A person who collects and puts together information from different sources for a book or report

focuses on creating or editing encyclopedia content rather than only gathering information
Wikipedian
vsencyclopedist
  • Jargon
1 5.5

A person who edits or adds information to Wikipedia

works on encyclopedias more broadly, not only online

Antonyms

132 2.8

A person who does an activity like a sport or hobby for pleasure, not as a job

10 4.9

A person who does not have special knowledge or training in a subject

How Scholarly

encyclopedist
1 8.8
scholar
290 4.1
researcher
635 2.7
editor
∞ 3.0
writer
∞ 1.0
contributor
193 3.6

Surface Forms

encyclopedist singular

Morphology

encyclopedist = encyclopedia (transparent) = encyclopedia + ist

Formed by the productive agentive suffix '-ist' added to the standalone noun 'encyclopedia'; learners who know 'encyclopedia' can infer a person associated with it.

Etymology

Encyclopedist comes from the Greek words enkyklios ('circle') and paideia ('education') and has the same root as encyclopedia. So an encyclopedist gathers and explains a full 'circle' of knowledge, which is why the word means someone who makes or edits an encyclopedia.