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LORE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote
Example:
early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend
Synonyms:
lore; traditional knowledge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("lore" is a kind of...):
cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lore"):
old wives' tale (a bit of lore passed on by word of mouth)
folklore (the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture)
