Know

Verb

 * 1)  To be certain or sure about.
 * I know that I’m right and you’re wrong.
 * He knew something terrible was going to happen.
 * 1)  To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
 * I know your mother, but I’ve never met your father.
 * 1)  To have knowledge of; to have memorised information, data, or facts about.
 * He knows more about 19th century politics than one would expect.
 * She knows where I live.
 * Let me do it. I know how it works.
 * You people don't know from funny.
 * 1)  To understand (a subject).
 * She knows chemistry better than anybody else.
 * 1)  To be informed about.
 * Do you know that Michelle and Jack are getting divorced? ― Yes, I know.
 * 1)  To experience.
 * Their relationship knew ups and downs.
 * 1)  To have sexual relations with.
 * , Genesis 4:1:
 * And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

Derived terms

 * knowing
 * knowledge
 * known
 * know about
 * know from
 * know of


 * it's not what you know but who you know
 * not know someone from Adam
 * know-all
 * know beans about
 * know-how
 * know-it-all
 * know-nothing

Related terms

 * get to know

Noun

 * 1) knowledge

Derived terms

 * in the know

Adverbs for Know
precisely; intimately; distinctly; intuitively; authoritatively; affectionately; grimly; casually; graciously; jocularly; abstractly; instantaneously; superficially; alliteratively; imperfectly; officially; familiarly; presumably; academically; traditionally; personally; fallaciously.

Thesaurus
absorb, account, acquaintance, aller sans dire, announcement, appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, associate with, be acquainted with, be apprised of, be aware of, be axiomatic, be certain, be cognizant of, be confident, be conscious of, be conversant with, be exposed to, be friends, be informed, be inseparable, be subjected to, be told, be with one, bet on, blue book, briefing, bulletin, catch, catch on, cognize, communication, communique, comprehend, conceive, conceptualize, cotton to, data, datum, difference, differentiate, dig, digest, directory, discern, discriminate, dispatch, distinguish, doubt not, encounter, endure, enlightenment, evidence, experience, extricate, facts, factual information, familiarization, fathom, feel, feel sure, follow, fraternize with, gamble on, gen, general information, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, get wind of, go through, go without saying, grasp, guidebook, handout, hard information, have, have information about, have it taped, have knowledge of, have no doubt, have the facts, hear, hear tell of, hearsay, hit it off, hobnob with, identify, incidental information, info, information, instruction, intelligence, just know, ken, know again, know for certain, know well, knowledge, labor under, learn, light, make out, master, meet, meet up with, meet with, mention, message, nail, notice, notification, overhear, pass through, pay, peg, perceive, place, possess, prehend, presentation, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, read, realize, recall, recall knowledge of, recognize, recollect, reidentify, release, remember, report, rest assured, run up against, savor, savvy, see, see through, seize, seize the meaning, sense, separate, sever, severalize, sidelight, spend, spot, stand under, statement, suffer, sustain, take, take in, taste, tell, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, transmission, undergo, understand, white book, white paper, word, wot, wot of

Etymology
From knowen:, from  cnawan:, from, from.


 * from Proto-Germanic: knajan:,  kná:, Dutch and German kennen:, Frisian kenne:
 * from Indo-European: Latin cognosco: (Spanish conocer:, French connaître:, Italian conoscere:, Portuguese conhecer:), Ancient Greek γνωρίζω: and γνῶσις:, and Persian شناختن:.

Pronunciation

 * ; now
 * ; now
 * ; now
 * ; now
 * ; now
 * ; now

Verb

 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: ведаць, знаць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: kahibalo
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Min Nan:, ,
 * Cornish:
 * Kernewek Kemmyn: godhvos
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ცოდნა
 * German:
 * Greek: (xéro)
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: savar
 * Indonesian: tahu
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 存知 , 存じ上げる


 * Khmer: ចេរ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: žinoti
 * Macedonian: знае
 * Malayalam: അറിയുക (aRiyuka)
 * Nahuatl:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Old French: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: savair
 * Russian:
 * Samogitian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian: знати, znati
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: medru
 * West Frisian: wite,
 * Zazaki:


 * Albanian: njoh
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: katultol (a place), kaila (a person)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 認識, 认识 (rènshi)
 * Min Nan: 捌 (pat)
 * Cornish:
 * Kernewek Kemmyn: aswonn
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ცოდნა
 * German:
 * Greek: (gnorízo)
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: konocar


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 知っている (しっている, shitté-irú)
 * Korean: ...와 친한 사이다 (...-wa chinhan saida)
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latin:, agnosco, regnosco, nosco, noscito
 * Latvian:
 * Malayalam: അറിയുക (aRiyuka)
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: ,
 * Papiamentu:
 * Persian: (šenāxtæn)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: знать (znat’)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: (a person);, veta om (a piece of fact)
 * Thai: (rújàk)
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: sevön
 * West Frisian: kenne
 * Yuki: nąnák


 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: (fáhima)
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Catalan: saber
 * Cebuano: kahibalo, kamao (a skill)
 * Chinese: 懂 (dǒng), 明白 (míngbai)
 * Cornish:
 * Kernewek Kemmyn: godhvos
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: weten
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (gnorízo)
 * Haitian Creole:


 * Ido: konocar
 * Interlingua: saper
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: -の知識がある (-のちしきがある, no chishiki ga aru)
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Malayalam: അറിയുക (aRiyuka)
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: уметь (umét’) to have a skill, знать (znat’)
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * West Frisian: witte
 * Zazaki:


 * Armenian: ,
 * Cebuano: kasabot
 * Cornish:
 * Kernewek Kemmyn: godhvos
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: forstå sig på, kende til
 * Finnish:
 * German:, auskennen in
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 理解する (りかいする, rikai suru), 分かる (わかる, wakaru)


 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latin: capio, intellego
 * Latvian:
 * Malayalam: അറിയുക (aRiyuka)
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian: знать (znat’)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * German:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: uti aliquo, notitiam habere
 * Latvian:
 * Norwegian:


 * Old English:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: познавать, познать
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian: ,
 * Cornish:
 * Kernewek Kemmyn: godhvos
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian: sapere
 * Latin: scio, intelligo, video, nosco


 * Latvian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Old French: ,
 * Portuguese:, aperceber-se
 * Russian: знать (znat’)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: estar Informado
 * Swedish:, veta om,
 * Turkish:


 * Czech:
 * French:


 * Latin: sentio, experio, experior
 * Portuguese: ,


 * : cunoscu
 * : save
 * : зная (znája)
 * : 知道 [to know something], 認識, 认识 [to know a person]
 * : kuaa
 * : להכיר (l'hākir)
 * : לדעת (l'dāʿāt), להבין (l'hāvin)
 * : tahu, mengetahui, kenal
 * : saper, cognoscer, recognoscer
 * : saper, cognoscer, recognoscer


 * : 知る (しる, shirú), 知っている (しっている, shitté-irú)
 * : (ulhimbi)
 * : zano
 * : cunoaşte
 * : zhanel
 * : malaman,kaalaman,kabatiran,kamalayan, kakilanlan I know him.-kilala ko siya, i know that the earth is round- alam kong bilog ang daigdig, I know that there will be economic crisis -batid ko ang pagkakaroon ng pang ekonomiyang pagbagsak. I know that he is already inside the house- malay ko na nasa loob na siya ng bahay.
 * : తెలుసుకొను
 * : save
 * : kuab
 * : sevön

Anagrams

 * wonk

Noun

 * 1) nuts

Etymology
From (compare Welsh cnau:).