COMMON KNOWLEDGE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Anything generally known to everyone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("common knowledge" is a kind of...):

general knowledge; public knowledge (knowledge that is available to anyone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "common knowledge"):

ancient history (knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence)

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