Knowledge Definition
nŏlĭj
noun
The act, fact, or state of knowing.
Webster's New World
Acquaintance with facts; range of information, awareness, or understanding.
Webster's New World
All that has been perceived or grasped by the mind; learning; enlightenment.
Webster's New World
The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned.
The extraordinary knowledge housed in the library.
American Heritage
The body of facts, principles, etc. acquired through human experience and thought.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- noesis
- cognition
- wisdom
- lore
- information
- sagacity
- polymathy
- perception
- pedantry
- pansophism
- omniscience (universal knowledge)
- omniscience
- ken
- intuition
- inkling
Antonyms:
- pretension
- emptiness
- ignorance
- unfamiliarity
- sciolism
- inerudition
- dilettanteism pedantry
verb
(obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge. [13th-17th c.]
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Knowledge
Noun
Singular:
knowledge
Plural:
knowledgesIdioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Knowledge
- to (the best of) one's knowledge
Origin of Knowledge
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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.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English knoulech knouen to know know -leche n. suff
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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