Knowledge

Noun

 * 1)  Acknowledgement.
 * 2) The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
 * His knowledge of Iceland was limited to what he'd seen on the Travel Channel.
 * 1) Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
 * 2) * 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
 * 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.
 * 1) Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
 * Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.
 * 1) Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.
 * Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphics, perchance?
 * 1)  Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge:).
 * 2) * 1573, George Gascoigne, "The Adventures of Master F.J.", An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction:
 * 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 [...].
 * 1)  Information or intelligence about something; notice.
 * 2) * 1580, Edward Hayes, "Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland", Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern, ed. Charles W Eliot, Cosimo 2005, p. 280:
 * 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.
 * 1) The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.
 * His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans.
 * 1)  Notice, awareness.
 * 2) * 1611, The Bible, Authorized Version, Ruth II.10:
 * 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?

Quotations

 * 1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, pages ix-x:
 * 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&mdash;moving beyond white western power centres and their dominant knowledges [...]

Derived terms

 * acknowledge
 * background knowledge
 * carnal knowledge
 * common knowledge
 * foreknowledge
 * general knowledge
 * interknowledge
 * knowledgeable or knowledgable
 * knowledge base
 * knowledge domain
 * knowledge engineer
 * knowledge is power
 * knowledge management


 * knowledge worker
 * metaknowledge
 * prior knowledge
 * public knowledge
 * scientific knowledge
 * self-knowledge
 * sphere of knowledge
 * theory of knowledge
 * traditional knowledge
 * tree of knowledge
 * working knowledge
 * zero-knowledge proof

Related terms

 * knowing

Synonyms

 * awareness
 * cognizance
 * ken
 * knowingness
 * learning

Antonyms

 * ignorance

Verb

 * 1)  To confess as true; to acknowledge.
 * 2) * 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 3:
 * Then went oute to hym Jerusalem, and all Jury, and all the region rounde aboute Jordan, and were baptised of hym in Jordan, knoledging their synnes.

Adjectives for Knowledge
technical; subtle; painful; pleasurable; experimental; distinct; tinctured; hea-rsay; extensive; intuitive; slight; detailed; repugnant; profound; dark; uncanny; sudden; acquired; human; systematic; psychoanalytic; copious; elementary; unique; well-known; definite; fuller; academic; intimate; precise; rudimentary; prodigious; barren; bookish; extemporary; unimparted; uncertain; critical; boundless; accurate; specialized; exhilarating; unwelcome; superior; guilty; dangerous; swift; unrelated; superficial; miraculous; worldly; unutterable; imperfect; substantial; immense; preliminary; fluent; growing; untimely; proficient; inestimable; complete; improved; practical; symbolic; consummate; masterful; extraordinary; previous; satisfying; medieval; organized; theoretical; advanced; wearisome; crafty; instinctive; varied; seeming; increased; thorough; lawful; inexhaustible; phenomenal; accumulated; comprehensive; preternatural; gradual; learned; unerring; scientific; definite; clearer; objective; special; lesser; naturalistic; adequate; hard-won; competent; masculine; shrewd; natural; deeper; desecrated; inherited; cynical; rapidly-acquired; delivering; deep-fetched; limited; dread; defective; positive; indisputable; fallacious; educational; gossipy; colloquial; all-embracing; traditional; questionable; acquired; laborious; working; premature; verified; superfluous; meager; personal; astronomic; contemptuous; inward; actual; earthly; secure; rooted; fiendish fascinating;  up-to-the-minute;   priceless happiest; nobler; inferior; well-founded momentary; unrivaled.

Verbs for Knowledge
absorb—; accumulate—; acquire—; apply —; arm with—; assimilate—; attain—; augment—; broadcast—; confront with—; con¬tribute to—; convey—; cultivate—; derive —; digest—; disavow—; disseminate—; draw upon—; employ—; enlarge—; enrich with—; equip with—; evince—; evolve—; exhibit—; expand—; extend—; feed with—; flash—; flaunt—; grope for—; illuminate with—; impart—; imply—; obscure—; pool —; prize—; promulgate—; purchase—; record—; retain—; retard—; safeguard—; soak up—; spread—; thirst for—; treasure —; utilize—; yearn for—; —enlightens; — boils down to.

Thesaurus
IQ, account, acquaintance, adeptness, advice, announcement, appreciation, apprehension, awareness, blue book, briefing, broadening the mind, bulletin, caliber, capacity, cognition, communication, communique, comprehension, conception, consciousness, data, datum, deductive power, directory, discernment, dispatch, education, enlightenment, erudition, esemplastic power, evidence, experience, expertise, facts, factual information, familiarity, familiarization, gen, general information, grasp, guidebook, handout, hard information, ideation, incidental information, info, information, insight, instruction, integrative power, intellect, intellectual acquirement, intellectual grasp, intellectual power, intellectualism, intellectuality, intelligence, intelligence quotient, knowing, learning, light, lore, mastery of skills, memorization, mental age, mental capacity, mental cultivation, mental culture, mental grasp, mental ratio, mentality, mention, message, mother wit, native wit, news, notice, notification, power of mind, presentation, proficiency, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, rationality, reasoning power, release, report, sanity, scholarship, schooling, science, scope of mind, self-instruction, sense, sidelight, statement, storing the mind, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, thinking power, transmission, understanding, white book, white paper, wisdom, wit, word

Alternative forms

 * cnaulage, cnoulech, knauleche, knaulege, knaulach, knaulage, knawlache, knawlage, kneuelich, kneuleche, kneuliche, knoleche, knolege, knoleige, knolych, knouelache, knouelech, knouelich, knoulecche, knoulegge, knouliche, knowlache, knowlage, knowleche, knowlege, knowlesche, knowliche, knowlych, knowlech

Etymology
knowleche:, of uncertain formation. The first element is ultimately identical with know:, but the second is obscure (neither Old Norse -leikr: nor Old English -lac: would have given -leche as found in the earliest Middle English citations). Compare knowlechen:,  cnawelæcing:, cnawlæc:, and know:.
 * The noun originally provided a counterpart to the now-obsolete verb to knowledge (see below), but was very early adapted to be the noun equivalent of know:.

Noun

 * Anglo-Norman:
 * Arabic:, معرفة
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 * Esperanto: scio
 * Finnish: ,
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 * Middle French:
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 * Greek:
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 * Icelandic:
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 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:


 * Latin: notitia,notio,agnitio, notitia, notio, agnitio, cognitio, intelligentia
 * Latvian: zināšana
 * Lithuanian: žinojimas, mokėjimas, išmanymas
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: (dâneš),  (dânâyi),,  (ma'refat)
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: cunoaștere, știre
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
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 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: జ్ఞానం (gnaanam), బోధ (bOdha)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: знання
 * West Frisian:


 * Arabic:, معرفة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 學識, 学识
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, επίγνωση
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic: vitneskja
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 学識
 * Kurdish: زانیاری
 * Latin: notitia, notio, agnitio, cognitio, intelligentia
 * Persian: آگاهی, هشیاری
 * Polish: świadomość
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: జాగరూకత


 * French:
 * Greek: ,
 * Icelandic:, kunnátta
 * Latin: notitia, notio, agnitio, cognitio, intelligentia


 * Romanian: cunoaștere
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: నైపుణ్యము


 * Dutch:, ,
 * French:, ,
 * Greek: γνώσεις,
 * Icelandic:
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 * Latin: scientia, artes, disciplinae, litterae, humanitas, studia
 * Romanian: cunoștințe, știință
 * Spanish:


 * : dituri
 * : znanje
 * : kono
 * : sidzedze
 * : coñecemento
 * : ცოდნა (tsodna)
 * : ידיעה (yədi’ah)
 * : ज्ञान (gyān), बोध (bodh) , बुद्धि (buddhi) , इल्म (ilm)
 * : þekking
 * : konoco
 * : pengetahuan
 * : cognoscentia
 * : 지식 (jisik); 학문 (hakmun)
 * : scientia, notitia , cognitio
 * : അറിവ് (aRivu), വിവരം (vivaram)
 * : kunnskap


 * : (dâneš),  (ma'refat)
 * : conhecimento
 * : cunoştinţe
 * Cyrillic: знање, ведност
 * Roman: znanje, vednost
 * : vednost, znanje
 * : sabiduría, conocimiento
 * : tussna, tamusni
 * : (kwaam róo)
 * : bilgi
 * : (ilm),  (gyān) ,  (dāniš) ,  (ma'rifat) ,  (buddhi) ,  (bodh)
 * : kiến thức
 * : kiến thức