| Main Entry: | lore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | myths, traditional wisdom |
Synonyms: |
adage, belief, custom, doctrine, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fable, folklore, information, knowledge, learning, legend, letters, mythology, mythos, saga, saw, saying, scholarship, science, superstition, tale, teaching, tradition |
| Main Entry: | erudition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | higher education |
Synonyms: |
bookishness, brains, cultivation, culture, enlightenment, intellectuality, knowledge, learnedness, learning, letters, literacy, lore, pedantry, refinement, savvy, scholarliness, scholarship, science, studiousness |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| Main Entry: | information |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts, news |
Synonyms: |
advice, ammo, break*, chapter and verse, clue, confidence, counsel, cue, data, dirt*, dope*, dossier, earful, enlightenment, erudition, illumination, info, inside story, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, leak, learning, lore, lowdown, material, message, network, notice, notification, orientation, propaganda, report, science, scoop, score, tidings, tip, what's what, whole story, wisdom, word* |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| Main Entry: | knowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's understanding; information |
Synonyms: |
ability, accomplishments, acquaintance, apprehension, attainments, awareness, cognition, comprehension, consciousness, dirt*, discernment, doctrine, dogma, dope*, education, enlightenment, erudition, expertise, facts, familiarity, goods*, grasp, inside story, insight, instruction, intelligence, judgment, know-how, learning, light*, lore, observation, philosophy, picture, power*, principles, proficiency, recognition, scholarship, schooling, science, scoop*, substance, theory, tuition, wisdom |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| Main Entry: | learning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | education, knowledge |
Synonyms: |
acquirements, attainments, culture, erudition, information, letters, literature, lore, research, scholarship, schooling, science, study, training, tuition, wisdom |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| Main Entry: | legend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story of the past, often fictitious |
Synonyms: |
fable, fiction, folk story, folk tale, folklore, lore, myth, mythology, mythos, narrative, saga, tale, tradition |
| Main Entry: | literature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written matter, both fictional and nonfictional |
Synonyms: |
abstract, article, belles-lettres, biography, books, brochure, classics, comment, composition, critique, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, drama, essay, exposition, findings, history, humanities, information, leaflet, letters, lit, literary works, lore, novel, observation, pamphlet, paper, poetry, prose, précis, report, research, story, summary, theme, thesis, tract, treatise, treatment, writings, written work |
Antonyms: |
speech |
| Main Entry: | myth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fictitious story, often ancient |
Synonyms: |
allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication, fairy story, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, folk ballad, folk tale, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, lore, mythos, parable, saga, superstition, tale, tall story, tradition |
Antonyms: |
fact, non-fiction, truth |
| Main Entry: | mythology |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | folklore |
Synonyms: |
belief, conviction, folk tales, legend, lore, mythicism, mythos, myths, stories, tradition |
Antonyms: |
actuality, history, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | old wives' tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | superstition |
Synonyms: |
fairy story, fallacy, false belief, folk tale, folklore, legend, lore, myth, notion, tall story, tall tale |