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COMMON KNOWLEDGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Anything generally known to everyone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("common knowledge" is a kind of...):
general knowledge; public knowledge (knowledge that is available to anyone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "common knowledge"):
ancient history (knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence)
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