TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote

Example:

early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend

Synonyms:

lore; traditional knowledge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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)