compendium
Other forms: compendiums
When you search an online encyclopedia, you are searching a compendium of information on just about everything. A compendium is a comprehensive collection of something.
You can also use the word compendium to describe a collection of written works. If you gather all of the anecdotes your parents and grandparents have told you into a book, you'll have created a compendium of family stories. The plural of compendium is either compendiums or compendia.
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a publication containing a variety of workssynonyms: collectiontypes:anthologya collection of selected literary passagesarchivescollection of records especially about an institutionomnibusan anthology of articles on a related subject or an anthology of the works of a single authortype of:publicationa copy of a printed work offered for distribution
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a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work
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Vocabulary lists containing compendium
Percy Jackson's normal life is turned upside down when gods from Greek mythology accuse him of stealing a supernatural weapon. Percy must find the real thief — and figure out his connection to the gods.
This memoir recounts Noah's childhood in South Africa during the last years of apartheid.
In this adaptation of Born a Crime for young readers, Trevor Noah recounts his childhood in apartheid-era South Africa.