traditional knowledge

1. 1.

   knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote

   “early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend”

   Synonymslore

   Broadercontent

   Narrowerold wives' talefolklore

Questions about traditional knowledge

What does traditional knowledge mean?

traditional knowledge means "knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote".

What is another word for traditional knowledge?

Close synonyms include lore. 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 traditional knowledge a common word?

traditional 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.