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spacelore en · NOUN

Etymology

From space + lore.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The teaching, knowledge, study, or science of (outer) space.
   • Beasts such as the whalawk and the sporm have been part of spacelore for generations and, unfortunately, it's true the whalawk is a 50 meter long, 30 ton flying horror with a ten meter wide mouth studded with multiple rows of razor sharp, three decimeter long teeth. 1997, R. Eric Boglin, The Hercules War, published 2002:
   • At the Cape, this event became part of spacelore, and is remembered as "the day they launched the escape tower'. 2001, Rex Hall, David J. Shayler, The Rocket Men:
   • They leaned back in the acceleration chairs before the ship's controls and Ronny listened to the other's spacelore. 2014, Dallas McCord Reynolds, Ultima Thule:

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