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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Knowledge that is available to anyone
Synonyms:
general knowledge; public knowledge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("general knowledge" is a kind of...):
cognition; knowledge; noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "general knowledge"):
common knowledge (anything generally known to everyone)
light (public awareness)
open; surface (information that has become public)