1
: a particular body of knowledge or tradition
the lore of baseball heroes
2
: something that is learned:
a
: traditional knowledge or belief
tribal lore
b
: knowledge gained through study or experience
the lore of religious architecture
3
archaic
: something that is taught : lesson
: the space between the eye and bill in a bird or the corresponding region in a reptile or fish
—usually used in plural
dark lores
Examples of lore in a Sentence
Noun (1)
the home gardener had acquired her herbal lore from many years of trial and error
set out to study the rich lore of the Cajun people of Louisiana before it all vanished
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Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 21 Dec. 2025
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The Mission Inn’s lore grew evermore intriguing throughout the 20th century.
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Check out the lore behind these witches in this week's edition of the Far-Flung Postcards series.
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Noun
In falling in the opener of their short road trip to the Great Lakes region, rookie Kon Knueppel closed the gap on etching his name into NBA lore.
—Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 21 Dec. 2025
Helping to beef up the lore around the Quesarito, Restrepo said, was the viral 2014 moment when Jokić's NBA draft pick slipped by almost unnoticed as it was eclipsed by a Quesarito launch ad airing at the same time.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 20 Dec. 2025
The Mission Inn’s lore grew evermore intriguing throughout the 20th century.
—Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2025
Check out the lore behind these witches in this week's edition of the Far-Flung Postcards series.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
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“Lore.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lore. Accessed 24 Dec. 2025.
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