PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Knowledge that is available to anyone

Synonyms:

general knowledge; public knowledge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("public knowledge" is a kind of...):

cognition; knowledge; noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "public knowledge"):

common knowledge (anything generally known to everyone)

light (public awareness)

open; surface (information that has become public)