Usually means: Comprehensive summaries of knowledge, organized.
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We found 10 dictionaries that define the word encyclopaedias:

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  1. encyclopaedias: Merriam-Webster
  2. encyclopaedias: Collins English Dictionary
  3. encyclopaedias: Vocabulary.com
  4. encyclopaedias: Wordnik
  5. encyclopaedias: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. encyclopaedias: Wiktionary
  7. encyclopaedias: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. encyclopaedias: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encyclopaedias: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encyclopaedias: Encyclopedia

(Note: See encyclopaedia as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Encyclopaedia)

noun:  (chiefly UK, Australia) Alternative spelling of encyclopedia [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.]
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