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FromMiddle Englishknowleche,knaweleche,cnawlece(“knowledge”), fromknowen(“to know, recognise”) +-leche. Related toMiddle Englishknowlechen(“to find out, acknowledge”). For more on the Middle English suffix-leche, comparefreelage. Compare alsoOld Englishcnāwelǣċ,cnāwelǣċing(“acknowledging, acknowledgement”).

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knowledge (usuallyuncountable,pluralknowledges)

  1. The fact ofknowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.[from 14th c.]
    Hisknowledge of Iceland was limited to what he'd seen on the Travel Channel.
    He has a lot ofknowledge on the Indus Valley Civilization.
    • 1604, Jeremy Corderoy,A Short Dialogve, wherein is Proved, that No Man can be Saved without Good VVorkes, 2nd edition, Oxford: Printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to be sold inPaules Church-yard at the signe of the Crowne, by Simon Waterson,→OCLC,page40:
      [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 haueknowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied,[…]
    • 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8847:
      The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passableknowledge 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.
  2. Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.[from 14th c.]
    • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen],Pride and Prejudice: […], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] forT[homas] Egerton, […],→OCLC:
      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 noknowledge of it.
  3. Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.[from 14th c.]
    Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.
  4. Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.[from 14th c.]
    Does your friend have anyknowledge of hieroglyphs, perchance?
    A secretary should have a goodknowledge of shorthand.
  5. (philosophical) Justified true belief
  6. (archaic or law) Sexual intimacy orintercourse (now usually in phrasecarnal knowledge).[from 15th c.]
    • 1573, George Gascoigne,An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction, The Adventures of Master F.J.:
      Every time that he hadknowledge 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 […].
  7. (obsolete)Information orintelligence about something;notice.[15th–18th c.]
    • 1580, Edward Hayes, “Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland”, in Charles W Eliot, editor,Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern, Cosimo, published2005, page280:
      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 giveknowledge that they have seen her token.
  8. The total of what isknown; allinformation and products of learning.[from 16th c.]
    His library contained the accumulatedknowledge of the Greeks and Romans.
  9. (countable) Something that can beknown; a branch of learning; a piece of information; ascience.[from 16th c.]
  10. (obsolete)Acknowledgement.[14th–16th c.]
  11. (obsolete)Notice,awareness.[17th c.]
  12. (UK, informal) The deep familiarity with certainroutes and places of interest required bytaxicabdrivers working inLondon,England.
    • 2002, Malcolm Bobbitt,Taxi! - The Story of the London Cab:
      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 theknowledge during evenings and weekends.

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fact of knowing about something; understanding, familiarity with information
awareness, state of having been informed
familiarity with particular skill, discipline
total of what is known, product of learning
sexual intercourse—seecarnal knowledge
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Verb

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knowledge (third-person singular simple presentknowledges,present participleknowledging,simple past and past participleknowledged)

  1. (obsolete) Toconfess as true; toacknowledge.[13th–17th c.]

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