knowledge

1. 1

   The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.uncountableusually

   • 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. 2

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

   • 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. 3

   Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.uncountableusually

   • Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.
4. 4

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

   • Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphs, perchance?
   • A secretary should have a good knowledge of shorthand.
5. 5

   Justified true beliefuncountableusually

6. 6

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

   • 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[…].
7. 7

   Information or intelligence about something; notice.obsoleteuncountableusually

   • 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.
8. 8

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

   • His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans.
9. 9

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

   • 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.
10. 10

    Acknowledgement.obsoleteuncountableusually

syn. awareness · cognizance · ken · knowingness · learning · knowledge

ant. ignorance

1. 1

   To confess as true; to acknowledge.obsolete

   • 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.
   • 5. The church of Christ knoweth no head, but Christ Jesu alone. The synagogue of Satan knowledgeth the Romish bishop to be head of the universal church of Christ throughout the world.