Word: knowledge Part of Speech: noun 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”). Pronunciation: /ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/, /ˈnɑ.lɪdʒ/, /ˈnoʊ.lɪdʒ/, /nɔː.leːdʒ/, /nɑː.leːdʒ/ 1. The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: His knowledge of Iceland was limited to what he'd seen on the Travel Channel. Example: He has a lot of knowledge on the Indus Valley Civilization. 2. Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: 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. 3. Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions. Example: Our ſoules, whoſe faculties can comprehend The wondrous Architecture of the world: And meaſure euery wandring planets courſe, Still climing after knowledge infinite, […] 4. Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphs, perchance? Example: A secretary should have a good knowledge of shorthand. 5. Justified true belief Labels: uncountable, usually 6. Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge). Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually Example: 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. Information or intelligence about something; notice. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: 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. The total of what is known; all information and products of learning. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans. 9. Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science. Labels: countable, usually Example: 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. Example: There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges. 10. Acknowledgement. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually 11. Notice, awareness. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: 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? 12. The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England. Labels: UK, informal, uncountable, usually Example: 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.