LORES Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

lores

noun

plural of lore

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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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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Sometimes my collection of knowledges feels like rash splatters of matter floating with me.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026

Definition of knowledges

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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

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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

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Lines for the free events can sometimes exceed six to eight hours, and there are Comic-Con legends that speak of even longer times.

— Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2026
And Kendrick will continue seeking out new ways of modernizing baseball’s Black legends, so they’re not forgotten by tomorrow’s superstars.

— Christian Marshall, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026

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