knowledge

A2
US /ˈnɒlɪd͡ʒ/
noun Freq #2011

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    the psychological result of perception, learning, and reasoning

    It takes many years to develop deep knowledge on a subject.

  2. 2
    noun

    The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.

    His knowledge of Iceland was limited to what he'd seen on the Travel Channel.

  3. 3
    noun

    Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.

    He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it.

  4. 4
    noun

    Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.

    Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.

  5. 5
    noun

    Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.

    Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphs, perchance?

  6. 6
    noun

    Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).

    Every time that he had knowledge of her he would leave, either in the bed, or in her cushion-cloth, or by her looking-glass, or in some place where she must needs find it, a piece of money[…].

  7. 7
    noun

    Information or intelligence about something; notice.

    Item, if any ship be in danger[…], every man to bear towards her, answering her with one light for a short time, and so to put it out again; thereby to give knowledge that they have seen her token.

  8. 8
    noun

    The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.

    His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans.

Etymology

From Middle English knowleche, knaweleche, cnawlece (“knowledge”), from knowen (“to know, recognise”) + -leche. Related to Middle English knowlechen (“to find out, acknowledge”). For more on the Middle English suffix -leche, compare freelage. Compare also Old English cnāwelǣċ, cnāwelǣċing (“acknowledging, acknowledgement”).

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Synonyms
1 noun · the psychological result of... cognition
More awarenesscognizancekenknowingnesslearning
Opposites
Word family
Derived forms acknowledgeafterknowledgeanti-knowledgeantiknowledgebeknowledgebook-knowledgecounterknowledgeethnoknowledgeforeknowledgeinterknowledgeknowledgableknowledge-box

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