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    LORE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdoteplay

    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)

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