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PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does public knowledge mean? 

PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE (noun)
  The noun PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE has 1 sense:

1. knowledge that is available to anyoneplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PUBLIC 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 ("public 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 "public knowledge"):

common knowledge (anything generally known to everyone)

light (public awareness)

open; surface (information that has become public)


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