lore

Meanings

Noun

• All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.
• The backstory created around a fictional universe.
• Workmanship.
• The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
• The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.

Verb

• Past of lose
• Past of lose, used in the sense of "left"
• Past of lese

Origin

• From Middle English lore, from Old English lār, from Proto-West Germanic *laiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *laizō, from *laizijaną. Cognate with Dutch leer, German Lehre. See also learn.
• From Latin lorum ("thong, strap").