English Explanatory Dictionary

knowledge

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
  2. Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
  3. Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
  4. Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.
  5. Justified true belief
  6. Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).
  7. Information or intelligence about something; notice.
  8. The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.
  9. Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.
  10. Acknowledgement.
  11. Notice, awareness.
  12. The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.
verb
  1. To confess as true; to acknowledge.
name
  1. A course of study which must be completed by prospective London taxi drivers; consists of 320 routes through central London and many significant places.

Pronunciation

/ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/ /ˈnɑ.lɪdʒ/ en-us-knowledge.ogg /ˈnoʊ.lɪdʒ/ /nɔː.leːdʒ/ /nɑː.leːdʒ/ /-le(ɖ)dʒ/

Word forms

knowledge knowledges knolege knowlage knowleche knowledg knowlege knowliche knowlych knowlech knaulege knaulage knawlage knoleche knoleige knowlache knolych knawlache knowledging knowledged the Knowledge

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”).

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

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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