COMMON KNOWLEDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common knowledge mean? 

• COMMON KNOWLEDGE (noun)
  The noun COMMON KNOWLEDGE has 1 sense:

1. anything generally known to everyone

  Familiarity information: COMMON KNOWLEDGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON KNOWLEDGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anything generally known to everyone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("common knowledge" is a kind of...):

general knowledge; public knowledge (knowledge that is available to anyone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "common knowledge"):

ancient history (knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence)

 Context examples 

It is now common knowledge the promoters might have ventured upon the Albert Hall and still found their space too scanty.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid journalism of 1902.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)