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knowledge

noun
/ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/UK/ˈnɑ.lɪdʒ/US/ˈnoʊ.lɪdʒ/

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”).

  1. inherited from knowleche

Definitions

  1. The fact of knowing about something

    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.
    • He has a lot of knowledge on the Indus Valley Civilization.

  2. Awareness of a particular fact or situation

    Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.

    • 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.

  3. Intellectual understanding

    Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.

    • Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.
    • Our ſoules, whoſe faculties can comprehend The wondrous Architecture of the world: And meaſure euery wandring planets courſe, Still climing after knowledge infinite, […]
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.

      • Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphs, perchance?
      • A secretary should have a good knowledge of shorthand.

    2. Justified true belief

    3. Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).

      • 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[…].

    4. Information or intelligence about something

      Information or intelligence about something; notice.

      • 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.

    5. The total of what is known

      The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.

      • His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans.

    6. Something that can be known

      Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.

      • he weakened his braines much, as all men doe, who over nicely and greedily will search out those knowledges [translating cognoissances], which hang not for their mowing, nor pertaine unto them.
      • There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges.

    7. Acknowledgement.

    8. Notice, awareness.

      • 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?

    9. The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab…

      The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.

      • 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 the knowledge during evenings and weekends.

    10. To confess as true

      To confess as true; to acknowledge.

      • 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.

    11. A course of study which must be completed by prospective London taxi drivers

      A course of study which must be completed by prospective London taxi drivers; consists of 320 routes through central London and many significant places.

      • The drivers of the officially licensed "black cabs" are famous for their mastery of "The Knowledge" of London streets.

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Derived

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 · +18 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at knowledge. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at knowledge. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at knowledge

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA