knowledge
English
/ˈnɒlɪdʒ/, /ˈnɑlɪdʒ/, /ˈnoʊlɪdʒ/
noun
Definitions
- The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
- Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
- Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
- Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.
- (philosophical) Justified true belief
- (archaic) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge (carnal knowledge)).
- (obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice.
- The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.
- (countable) Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.
- (obsolete) Acknowledgement.
- (obsolete) Notice, awareness.
- (UK) The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English knowleche.
Origin
Middle English
knowleche
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiknowledge English
- beknowledge English
- book English
- book-knowledge English
- box English
- counterknowledge English
- ethnoknowledge English
- foreknowledge English
- interknowledge English
- knowledge-box English
- knowledgeable English
- knowledgeableness English
- knowledgeably English
- knowledgeful English
- knowledgeless English
- knowledgelessness English
- knowledgelike English
- meta-knowledge English
- metaknowledge English
- misknowledge English
- nonknowledge English
- preknowledge English
- self-knowledge English
- superknowledge English
- unknowledge English
- unknowledgeable English
- ナレッジ Japanese
- ノレッジ Japanese
- knowleche Middle English
- box
- book
- unknowledge
- beknowledge
- misknowledge
- preknowledge
- knowledgeful
- nonknowledge
- knowledgelike
- foreknowledge
- metaknowledge
- antiknowledge
- knowledgeably
- knowledge-box
- knowledgeless
- knowledgeable
- ethnoknowledge
- book-knowledge
- meta-knowledge
- superknowledge
- self-knowledge
- interknowledge
- unknowledgeable
- counterknowledge
- knowledgeableness
- knowledgelessness