knowledge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: knowledges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knolege
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knowlage
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knowleche
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knowledg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knowlege
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knowliche
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knowlych
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knowlech
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knaulege
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knaulage
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knawlage
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knoleche
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knoleige
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knowlache
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knolych
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knawlache
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: His knowledge of Iceland was limited to what he'd seen on the Travel Channel.
He has a lot of knowledge on the Indus Valley Civilization.
[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, […]
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.
gloss: Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.
Our ſoules, whoſe faculties can comprehend
The wondrous Architecture of the world:
And meaſure euery wandring planets courſe,
Still climing after knowledge infinite, […]
gloss: Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphs, perchance?
A secretary should have a good knowledge of shorthand.
gloss: Justified true belief
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
examples: 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[…].
gloss: Information or intelligence about something; notice.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans.
gloss: Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: 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.
There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges.
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[…].
gloss: Acknowledgement.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: Notice, awareness.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: 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?
gloss: The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
Synonyms: awareness
cognizance
ken
knowingness
learning
knowledge
Antonyms: ignorance
Related words: know
knowing
belief
intuition
conviction
worldview
guess
guesswork
opinion
view
doctrine
teaching
hypothesis
theory
assumption
inference
estimate
guesstimate
taste
preference
sense
perception
sensation
observation
experiment
test
trial
exploration
education
authority
parent
teacher
expert
book
verification
falsification
deduction
induction
interpolation
extrapolation
curve fitting
demonstration
justification
derivation
instrumentation
inquiry
analysis
debate
dialogue
refutation
understanding
expertise
know-how
wisdom
learnedness
erudition
data
information
model
record
evidence
proof
certainty
positivity
study
philosophy
epistemology
logic
science
publication
encyclopedia
compendium
dictionary
library
database
Internet
server
cloud
thought
idea
memory
utterance
sentence
paragraph
saying
principle
rule
theorem
axiom
postulate
law
mind
school
truth
communication
empiricism
rationalism
critical rationalism
verificationism
falsificationism
inductivism
positivism
logical positivism
skepticism
learn
remember
forget
opine
prove
demonstrate
write down
extensive
deep
superficial
theoretical
practical
useful
working
encyclopedic
public
private
scientific
tacit
explicit
general
specialized
special
broad
declarative
procedural
innate
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 490. Knowledge
Derived words: acknowledge
afterknowledge
a little knowledge is a dangerous thing
antiknowledge
anti-knowledge
beknowledge
book-knowledge
content knowledge
counterknowledge
elite ball knowledge
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 society
knowledge work
knowledge worker
metaknowledge
meta-knowledge
misknowledge
naughty knowledge
Nelsonian knowledge
nonknowledge
personal knowledge base
personal knowledge management
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
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