• n.
    ⦿information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
    lexical concept
  • the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:background
  2. enl:background knowledge
wn:interlingual indexili:i67484

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • backgroundbackground knowledge
  • background knowledge