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Some times I encounter the phrase (ex: 世間の知るところとなる) and the usage of ところ seems
unusual to me so after looking up in a dictionary I found this meaning for
ところ:

> 《漢文の、受身を表す「所」の訓読から。「…ところとなる」の形で》前に置かれた語句が示す行為の対象であることを表す。「世人の称賛する―となった」

Is this the meaning being used here? If so, would "世間の知るところとなる" be essentially
the same as "世間に知られる"?
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What does ところ mean in 知るところとなる?
Yes that is the correct definition. The definition says this type of ところ
refers to the object/target of the preceding verb, which may be true but is a
little puzzling. The very literal translation would be something like "It
became the target of people's knowing", but practically, it's okay to simply
think ～ところとなる is just a set phrase that means "it turns out that ～".

As the dictionary says, this is from a convention of
_[kanbun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanbun) kundoku_, which is a technique
of forcibly reading Chinese passages as Japanese. There are many
unconventional word usages in this field, and a few of them are occasionally
used in stiff texts. [能わず](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/52260/5010) is
another example of this.
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