Definitions
Traditional knowledge, stories, or teachings.
Word origin
From Middle English lore, from Old English lār, from Proto-West Germanic *laiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *laizō, from *laizijaną (“to teach”). Cognate with Dutch leer, German Lehre, Swedish lära and Danish lære. See also learn.
Used in a sentence
“the recondite lore of the Ancient Egyptians”
“He to them calles and speakes, yet nought avayles; / They heare him not, they have forgot his lore / But go which way they list; their guide they have forelore.”
“The succession story would get repeated so often that it would turn into Silicon Valley lore.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Traditional knowledge”4 letters
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