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lore

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"Traditional knowledge"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /lɔː/Part of speech nounSorted elorStarts with LEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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