public knowledge

1. 1.

   knowledge that is available to anyone

   Synonymsgeneral knowledge

   Broadercognition

   Narrowercommon knowledgelightopen

Questions about public knowledge

What does public knowledge mean?

public knowledge means "knowledge that is available to anyone".

What is another word for public knowledge?

Close synonyms include general knowledge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is public knowledge a common word?

public knowledge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.