noun
- a recognizing or being recognized; acknowledgment; admission, as of a fact
- acknowledgment and approval, gratitude, etc.: in recognition of her services
- formal acknowledgment by a government of the independence and sovereignty of a state newly created, as by secession, or of a government newly set up, as by revolution
- identification of some person or thing as having been known before or as being of a certain kind
- notice, as in passing; greeting; salutation
Origin:
L recognitio < recognitus, pp. of recognoscere: see recognizance