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fanlore

fanlore noun: the history or knowledge of a fandom.

Noun

fanlore (uncountable)

  1. The history or knowledge of a fandom.
    • But by this time, we'd remembered the location of Clifton's Cafeteria which is well-known in old Los Angeles fanlore.1957 May, Ed Cox, “Torus Installment”, in Contour, number 11, page 7
    • We have moved out of fannish lore and into questions of ontology. I have long been fascinated by anything having to do with the nature of existence, nonexistence, the interplay between the two — even more than being fascinated by discussions of fanlore.1981 August, Gary Deindorfer, “Group Sainthood”, in Boonfark, number 5, page 34

Origin of fanlore

From fan + lore.

Questions about fanlore

What does fanlore mean?
Fanlore means the history or knowledge of a fandom.
What part of speech is fanlore?
Fanlore is a noun.

Words near fanlore in the dictionary

  1. fanling
  2. fanlings
  3. fanlisting
  4. fanlistings
  5. fanlit
  6. fanlore
  7. Fanlu
  8. fanmade
  9. fanmag
  10. fanmags
  11. fanmail

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fanlore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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