knowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nŏl′ij
ipa: /ˈnɒlɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
enpr: nōl′āj
ipa: /nɔ.lɛ(ɖ)dʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /nɔ.le(ɖ)dʒ/
note: Indic
enpr: nōl′ij
ipa: /ˈnoʊlɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒlɪdʒ
Forms: form: knowledges
form: knolege
form: knowlage
form: knowleche
form: knowledg
form: knowlege
form: knowliche
form: knowlych
form: knowlech
form: knaulege
form: knaulage
form: knawlage
form: knoleche
form: knoleige
form: knowlache
form: knolych
form: knawlache
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”).
Senses: examples: text: His knowledge of Iceland was limited to what he'd seen on the Travel Channel.
text: He has a lot of knowledge on the Indus Valley Civilization.
text: [N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, […]
ref: 1604, Jeremy Corderoy, A Short Dialogve, wherein is Proved, that No Man can be Saved without Good VVorkes, 2nd edition, Oxford: Printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crowne, by Simon Waterson, →OCLC, page 40:
text: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
ref: 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
examples: text: Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.
text: Our ſoules, whoſe faculties can comprehend
The wondrous Architecture of the world:
And meaſure euery wandring planets courſe,
Still climing after knowledge infinite, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
glosses: Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
examples: text: Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphs, perchance?
text: A secretary should have a good knowledge of shorthand.
glosses: Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.
qualifier: philosophical
glosses: Justified true belief
examples: text: 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[…].
ref: 1573, George Gascoigne, An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction, The Adventures of Master F.J.:
topics: law
glosses: Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1580, Edward Hayes, “Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland”, in Charles W Eliot, editor, Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern, Cosimo, published 2005, page 280:
glosses: Information or intelligence about something; notice.
examples: text: His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans.
glosses: The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.
examples: text: he weakened his braines much, as all men doe, who over nicely and greedily will search out those knowledges [translating cognoissances], which hang not for their mowing, nor pertaine unto them.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges.
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 64, recto:
text: There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992).[…]They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics. These debates inform this attempt at worlding women—moving beyond white western power centres and their dominant knowledges[…].
ref: 1996, Jan Pettman, Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics (Hardcover), Routledge, →ISBN, pages ix and x:
glosses: Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.
glosses: Acknowledgement.
examples: text: Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, :[10]:
glosses: Notice, awareness.
examples: text: There is only one sure way to memorise the runs and that is to follow them, either on foot, cycle or motor cycle; hence, the familiar sight of would-be cabbies learning the knowledge during evenings and weekends.
ref: 2002, Malcolm Bobbitt, Taxi! - The Story of the London Cab:
glosses: The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.
Synonyms: word: awareness
word: cognizance
word: ken
word: knowingness
word: learning
word: knowledge
Hyponyms: background knowledge
book knowledge
carnal knowledge
common knowledge
foreknowledge
general knowledge
interknowledge
metaknowledge
prior knowledge
protoknowledge
public knowledge
reading knowledge
red flag knowledge
scientific knowledge
stock knowledge
traditional knowledge
working knowledge
Coordinate terms: english: synonymous in some senses and instances
translation: synonymous in some senses and instances
word: knowledgeability
Derived terms: acknowledge
afterknowledge
a little knowledge is a dangerous thing
antiknowledge
anti-knowledge
beknowledge
book-knowledge
content knowledge
counterknowledge
ethnoknowledge
foreknowledge
gendered knowledge
interknowledge
knowledgable
knowledgeable
knowledge base
knowledge-box
knowledge domain
knowledge engineer
knowledge engineering
knowledgeful
knowledge graph
knowledge is power
knowledgeless
knowledgelike
knowledge management
knowledge map
knowledgement
knowledge mining
knowledge work
knowledge worker
meta-knowledge
metaknowledge
misknowledge
naughty knowledge
Nelsonian knowledge
nonknowledge
preknowledge
principle of least knowledge
protoknowledge
red flag knowledge
safe in the knowledge
self-knowledge
sphere of knowledge
superknowledge
theory of knowledge
to my knowledge
to one's knowledge
to the best of one's knowledge
tree of knowledge
unknowledge
zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
zero-knowledge
zero-knowledge proof
Related terms: word: know
word: knowing
word: belief
word: intuition
word: conviction
word: worldview
word: guess
word: guesswork
word: opinion
word: view
word: doctrine
word: teaching
word: hypothesis
word: theory
word: assumption
word: inference
word: estimate
word: guesstimate
word: taste
word: preference
word: sense
word: perception
word: sensation
word: observation
word: experiment
word: test
word: trial
word: exploration
word: education
word: authority
word: parent
word: teacher
word: expert
word: book
word: verification
word: falsification
word: deduction
word: induction
word: interpolation
word: extrapolation
word: curve fitting
word: demonstration
word: justification
word: derivation
word: instrumentation
word: inquiry
word: analysis
word: debate
word: dialogue
word: refutation
word: understanding
word: expertise
word: know-how
word: wisdom
word: learnedness
word: erudition
word: data
word: information
word: model
word: record
word: evidence
word: proof
word: certainty
word: positivity
word: study
word: philosophy
word: epistemology
word: logic
word: science
word: publication
word: encyclopedia
word: compendium
word: dictionary
word: library
word: database
word: Internet
word: server
word: cloud
word: thought
word: idea
word: memory
word: utterance
word: sentence
word: paragraph
word: saying
word: principle
word: rule
word: theorem
word: axiom
word: postulate
word: law
word: mind
word: school
word: truth
word: communication
word: empiricism
word: rationalism
word: critical rationalism
word: verificationism
word: falsificationism
word: inductivism
word: positivism
word: logical positivism
word: skepticism
word: learn
word: remember
word: forget
word: opine
word: prove
word: demonstrate
word: write down
word: extensive
word: deep
word: superficial
word: theoretical
word: practical
word: useful
word: working
word: encyclopedic
word: public
word: private
word: scientific
word: tacit
word: explicit
word: general
word: specialized
word: special
word: broad
word: declarative
word: procedural
word: innate
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 490. Knowledge