LORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lore mean? 

• LORE (noun)
  The noun LORE has 1 sense:

1. knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote

  Familiarity information: LORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

lore; traditional knowledge

Context example:

early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend

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)

 Context examples 

He was a middle-aged man, portly and affable, with a considerable fund of local lore.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When all was ready, Van Helsing said:—Before we do anything, let me tell you this; it is out of the lore and experience of the ancients and of all those who have studied the powers of the Un-Dead.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

While Mary drew, Diana pursued a course of encyclopaedic reading she had (to my awe and amazement) undertaken, and I fagged away at German, he pondered a mystic lore of his own: that of some Eastern tongue, the acquisition of which he thought necessary to his plans.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)