lores

noun

plural of lore
1
as in knowledges
a body of facts learned by study or experience the home gardener had acquired her herbal lore from many years of trial and error

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2
as in mythologies
the body of customs, beliefs, stories, and sayings associated with a people, thing, or place set out to study the rich lore of the Cajun people of Louisiana before it all vanished

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  1. knowledges
  2. mythologies
  3. sciences
  4. folklores
  5. wisdoms
  6. traditions
  7. legends
Noun
  • Sometimes my collection of knowledges feels like rash splatters of matter floating with me.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
Definition of knowledges
Noun
  • But the filmmaker proves more interested in interrogating that ethos than recreating it, and few horror mythologies are better suited to exploring betrayal and regret than one built around the refusal to let the dead remain dead.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 July 2026
  • The threads that formed country music The American West generated its own mythologies.
    — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
Definition of mythologies
Noun
  • The question thus becomes what sciences and technologies are at issue?
    — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The same tectonics that drive earthquakes act as the state's landscape artists, said Julian Lozos, associate professor of geological sciences at Cal State Northridge.
    — Rong-Gong Lin II Los Angeles Times, Arkansas Online, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of sciences
Noun
  • The kallikantzaroi are a group of blind, black goblins who live underground during most of the year sawing at the world tree – a motif throughout various folklores that connects the heavens to the Earth.
    — Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2022
Definition of folklores
Noun
  • Regardless of one’s experience with the Tarot, this book offers profound, embodied wisdoms for creative and critical writers, artists, and activists.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
  • The book also includes little wisdoms from his three children with wife Camila Alves McConaughey; son Levi, 17 (who plays his onscreen son in The Lost Bus), daughter Vida, 15, and younger son Livingston, 12.
    — Andrea Mandell, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
Definition of wisdoms
Noun
  • And for Southerners, in particular, these types of trips provide chances to pass down beloved traditions and introduce the next generation to the places and pastimes that have long been part of your family’s story.
    — Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2026
  • There is no intent other than honoring the traditions of the Native American history.
    — Scott Powers, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of traditions
Noun
  • The plan drew overwhelming backlash, with soccer legends and governing bodies blasting it for allegedly prioritizing shareholders over the game of soccer.
    — Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • But in a world where a few basis points separates legends from washouts, a 10-point edge is an enormous windfall for anyone who trusted Kalshi’s numbers over those crunched by CME, the giant futures-exchange operator.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of legends
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