Sekirov Dictionary

knowledge

UK /ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/US /ˈnɑ.lɪdʒ/

noun 12
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 1

noun12

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information and understanding that someone has about a subject, a place or a situation
- 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.
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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.
(UK, informal) The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.
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The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.
- His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans.
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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. — 1813
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Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
- Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.
Justified true belief
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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. — 1603
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(no longer used) 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? — 1526
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(no longer used) 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[…]. — 1573
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(no longer used) 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. — 1580
(no longer used) Acknowledgement.

verb1

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(no longer used) 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. — 1526

forms

knowledged · knowledging · knowledges

Phrases with knowledge

safe in the knowledge
Confidently, because one is certain that something relevant to the situation is true.

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