TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does traditional knowledge mean? 

• TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE (noun)
  The noun TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE has 1 sense:

1. knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote

  Familiarity information: TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE (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 ("traditional knowledge" 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 "traditional knowledge"):

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)