GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does general knowledge mean? 

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

1. knowledge that is available to anyone

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Knowledge that is available to anyone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

general knowledge; public knowledge

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

cognition; knowledge; noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)

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

common knowledge (anything generally known to everyone)

light (public awareness)

open; surface (information that has become public)

 Context examples 

There was no difference on tests of general knowledge.

(Algal Virus Infects, Affects Humans, NIH)

Fundamental research designed to obtain or increase general knowledge about cancer, performed without the goal of solving or addressing a specific cancer-related issue or condition.

(Basic Cancer Research, NCI Thesaurus)

Whether those pleading orators were persons educated in the general knowledge of equity, or only in provincial, national, and other local customs?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I must pursue general knowledge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I had no idea how he employed his time in the interval, beyond a general knowledge that he was very popular in the place, and had twenty means of actively diverting himself where another man might not have found one.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)