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    • 1.1 Alternative forms
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    • 1.4 Noun
      • 1.4.1 Synonyms
      • 1.4.2 Antonyms
      • 1.4.3 Hyponyms
      • 1.4.4 Coordinate terms
      • 1.4.5 Derived terms
      • 1.4.7 Collocations
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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:knowledgeWikipedia

Alternative forms

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  • (obsolete) knolege, knowlage, knowleche, knowledg, knowlege, knowliche, knowlych, knowlech
  • (obsolete, uncommon, Scottish) knaulege, knaulage, knawlage
  • (obsolete, uncommon) knoleche, knoleige, knowlache, knolych
  • (obsolete, verb) knawlache

Etymology

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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).

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: nŏl′ij, IPA(key): /ˈnɒlɪd͡ʒ/
    • Audio (US):(file)
  • (Indic) enPR: nōl′āj, IPA(key): /nɔ.lɛ(ɖ)dʒ/, /nɔ.le(ɖ)dʒ/
  • (obsolete) enPR: nōl′ij, IPA(key): /ˈnoʊlɪd͡ʒ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒlɪdʒ
  • Hyphenation UK: know‧ledge, US: knowl‧edge

Noun

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knowledge (usually uncountable, plural knowledges)

  1. The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. [from 14th c.] 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.
    • 1604, Jeremy Corderoy, A Short Dialogve, wherein is Proved, that No Man can be Saved without Good VVorkes, 2nd edition, Oxford: Printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crowne, by Simon Waterson, →OCLC, page 40:[N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, []
    • 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
  2. Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something. [from 14th c.]
    • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: [], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: [] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, [], →OCLC: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; the state of appreciating truth or information. [from 14th c.] Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.
    • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. [] The First Part [], 2nd edition, part 1, London: [] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, [], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:Our ſoules, whoſe faculties can comprehendThe wondrous Architecture of the world:And meaſure euery wandring planets courſe,Still climing after knowledge infinite, []
  4. Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc. [from 14th c.] Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphs, perchance? A secretary should have a good knowledge of shorthand.
  5. (philosophical) Justified true belief
  6. (archaic or law) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge). [from 15th c.]
    • 1573, George Gascoigne, An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction, The Adventures of Master F.J.: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. (obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice. [15th–18th c.]
    • 1580, Edward Hayes, “Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland”, in Charles W Eliot, editor, Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern, Cosimo, published 2005, page 280: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. The total of what is known; all information and products of learning. [from 16th c.] His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans.
  9. (countable) Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science. [from 16th c.]
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes [], book II, London: [] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount [], →OCLC: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.
    • 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: [] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, [], →OCLC, folio 64, recto:There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges.Spelling has been modernised.
    • 1996, Jan Pettman, Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics‎[1] (Hardcover), Routledge, →ISBN, pages ix and x:There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992).[]They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics. These debates inform this attempt at worlding women—moving beyond white western power centres and their dominant knowledges [].
  10. (obsolete) Acknowledgement. [14th–16th c.]
  11. (obsolete) Notice, awareness. [17th c.]
    • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt [] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, :[10]: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?
  12. (UK, informal) The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.
    • 2002, Malcolm Bobbitt, Taxi! - The Story of the London Cab: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.

Synonyms

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  • awareness
  • cognizance
  • ken
  • knowingness
  • learning
  • See Thesaurus:knowledge

Antonyms

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  • ignorance

Hyponyms

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  • background knowledge
  • book knowledge
  • carnal knowledge
  • common knowledge
  • foreknowledge
  • general knowledge
  • interknowledge
  • metaknowledge
  • prior knowledge
  • protoknowledge
  • public knowledge
  • reading knowledge
  • red flag knowledge
  • scientific knowledge
  • stock knowledge
  • traditional knowledge
  • working knowledge

Coordinate terms

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  • knowledgeability (synonymous in some senses and instances)

Derived terms

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  • acknowledge
  • afterknowledge
  • a little knowledge is a dangerous thing
  • anti-knowledge
  • antiknowledge
  • 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
  • preknowledge
  • principle of least knowledge
  • protoknowledge
  • red flag knowledge
  • safe in the knowledge
  • self-knowledge
  • sphere of knowledge
  • superknowledge
  • theory of knowledge
  • to my knowledge
  • to one's knowledge
  • to the best of one's knowledge
  • tree of knowledge
  • unknowledge
  • zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
  • zero-knowledge
  • zero-knowledge proof
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  • know
  • knowing

Collocations

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  • extensive, deep, superficial, theoretical, practical, useful, working, encyclopedic, public, private, scientific, tacit, explicit, general, specialized, special, broad, declarative, procedural, innate, etc.

Translations

[edit] fact of knowing about something; understanding, familiarity with information
  • Afrikaans: kennis (af)
  • Albanian: dituri (sq) f, dije (sq) f, dijeni (sq) f
  • Amharic: እውቀት (ʾəwḳät)
  • Arabic: عِلْم (ar) m (ʕilm), مَعْرِفَة (ar) f (maʕrifa)
  • Armenian: իմացություն (hy) (imacʻutʻyun), գիտելիք (hy) (gitelikʻ)
  • Assamese: জ্ঞান (gyan)
  • Asturian: conocimientu (ast) m, conocencia (ast) f
  • Azerbaijani: bilik (az)
  • Baluchi: زانت
  • Bangi: boyebi
  • Bashkir: белем (belem)
  • Belarusian: ве́данне (be) n (vjédannje), ве́даньне n (vjédanʹnje)
  • Bengali: জ্ঞান (bn) (gên), এলেম (bn) (elem)
  • Bikol Central: kaaraman (bcl)
  • Breton: anaoudegez f
  • Bulgarian: зна́ние (bg) n (znánie)
  • Burmese: အသိပညာ (my) (a.si.pa.nya), ဝိဇ္ဇာ (my) (wijja)
  • Cahuilla: 'e'nanill
  • Catalan: coneixement (ca) m
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⵓⵙⵙⵏⴰ f (tussna)
  • Chinese: Cantonese: 知識 / 知识 (zi1 sik1, zi3 sik1), 見識 / 见识 (gin3 sik1) Dungan: җышы (žɨšɨ), җяншы (ži͡anšɨ), эрлин (erlin) (from Arabic) Mandarin: 知識 / 知识 (zh) (zhīshi), 見識 / 见识 (zh) (jiànshí, jiànshì)
  • Coptic: ⲉⲙⲓ (emi), ⲓⲙⲓ (imi)
  • Crimean Tatar: bilgi, bilme
  • Czech: znalost (cs) f, vědění n
  • Danish: viden (da), kundskab, kendskab (da)
  • Dutch: kennis (nl), weten (nl), wetenschap (nl)
  • Esperanto: scio
  • Estonian: teadmine, teadmised pl
  • Extremaduran: conocencia f
  • Faroese: vitan f
  • Finnish: tieto (fi), tiedot (fi) pl
  • French: connaissance (fr) f, science (fr) f Middle French: sçavoir m Old French: savoir m, conoissance f, escient m
  • Friulian: cognossince f
  • Galician: coñecemento (gl) m, sabenza f, sabedoría f
  • Georgian: ცოდნა (ka) (codna)
  • German: Wissen (de) n, Kenntnis (de) f
  • Greek: γνώση (el) f (gnósi), αγωγή (el) f (agogí) Ancient: γνῶσις f (gnôsis)
  • Haitian Creole: konesans
  • Hanunoo: alam
  • Hawaiian: ʻike
  • Hebrew: יֶדַע (he) (yéda), ידיעה (he) f (yediá)
  • Hindi: जान (hi) f (jān), ज्ञान (hi) m (jñān), बुद्धि (hi) f (buddhi), इल्म (hi) m (ilm)
  • Hungarian: tudás (hu), ismeret (hu)
  • Icelandic: þekking (is) f
  • Indonesian: pengetahuan (id)
  • Interlingua: cognoscentia
  • Irish: fios m
  • Italian: conoscenza (it) f
  • Japanese: 知識 (ja) (ちしき, chishiki)
  • Kapampangan: pamibaluan, pangabalu
  • Kazakh: білім (bılım), ғылым (kk) (ğylym)
  • Khmer: ចំណេះ (km) (cɑmneh), ញាណ (km) (ñiən), វិជ្ជា (km) (vɨcciə)
  • Korean: 지식 (ko) (jisik),  (ko) (am)
  • Kyrgyz: билим (ky) (bilim)
  • Lao: ຄວາມຮູ້ (lo) (khuām hū), ວິຊາ (wi sā)
  • Latin: notitia f, notio (la) f, agnitio f, cognitio f, intelligentia f
  • Latvian: zināšana f
  • Lingala: boyebi
  • Lithuanian: žinojimas m, mokėjimas (lt) m, išmanymas m
  • Macedonian: знаење f (znaenje)
  • Malay: pengetahuan (ms), ilmu (ms)
  • Maltese: konoxxenza f
  • Maori: mātauranga (mi), mōhio ngutu (Refers to superficial understanding)
  • Mongolian: Cyrillic: эрдэм (mn) (erdem), мэдлэг (mn) (medleg)
  • Nepali: ज्ञान (gyān)
  • Ngazidja Comorian: udjuzi class 11
  • Norwegian: Bokmål: kunnskap (no) m, viten m Nynorsk: kunnskap m
  • Occitan: coneissença (oc) f
  • Odia: ଜ୍ଞାନ (or) (jñāna)
  • Old French: saveir
  • Ottoman Turkish: بیلك (bilik)
  • Pali: ñāṇa, vijjā
  • Persian: Iranian Persian: دانِش (fa) (dâneš), شِناخْت (šenâxt), عِلْم (elm), مَعْرِفَت (ma'refat)
  • Plautdietsch: Wissenschoft f
  • Polish: wiedza (pl) f
  • Portuguese: conhecimento (pt) m
  • Quechua: riqsiy
  • Romanian: cunoaștere (ro) f, știre (ro) f
  • Russian: зна́ние (ru) n (znánije), осведомлённость (ru) f (osvedomljónnostʹ)
  • Sanskrit: ज्ञान (sa) (jñāna), बुद्धि (sa) (buddhi), विद्या (sa) (vidyā), बोध (sa) (bodha)
  • Scots: kennin
  • Scottish Gaelic: fios m
  • Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: знáње n Roman: znánje (sh) n
  • Sicilian: canuscenza f
  • Slovak: znalosť f
  • Slovene: znanje (sl)
  • Spanish: conocimiento (es) m, conocencia (es) f (rural), desperteza f (desus.)
  • Sundanese: pangaweruh
  • Swahili: maarifa (sw)
  • Swedish: kunskap (sv) c
  • Sylheti: ꠉꠣꠀꠘ (gian)
  • Tagalog: (literally) karunungan n
  • Tajik: дониш (tg) (doniš), маърифат (tg) (ma'rifat)
  • Tamil: அறிவு (ta) (aṟivu), ஞானம் (ta) (ñāṉam)
  • Tatar: белем (tt) (belem)
  • Telugu: జ్ఞానము (te) (jñānamu), బోధ (te) (bōdha)
  • Thai: ความรู้ (th) (kwaam-rúu), วิชา (th) (wí-chaa), วิทยา (th) (wít-tá-yaa)
  • Tibetan: ཤེས་བྱ (shes bya), ཡོན་ཏན (yon tan)
  • Tocharian B: karsalñe, kärsor
  • Tok Pisin: save
  • Turkish: bilim (tr), marifet (tr), bilgi (tr)
  • Turkmen: bilim (tk), maglumat
  • Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎓𐎚 (dʿt)
  • Ukrainian: знання́ (uk) n (znannjá)
  • Urdu: عِلْم (ur) m ('ilm), شَناخْت f (śanāxt), گِیان m (giyān), گْیان m (gyān)
  • Uyghur: بىلىم (ug) (bilim)
  • Uzbek: bilim (uz), bilish (uz)
  • Vietnamese: tri thức (vi), kiến thức (vi)
  • Waray-Waray: kaaram
  • Welsh: adnabyddiaeth (cy), gwybodaeth (cy) f
  • West Frisian: witten (fy)
  • Woiwurrung: yurlendj
  • Yakut: билии (bilii)
  • Yiddish: וויסן n (visn)
  • Zazaki: zanış, elm
awareness, state of having been informed
  • Arabic: عِلْم (ar) m (ʕilm), مَعْرِفَة (ar) f (maʕrifa)
  • Bikol Central: kaaraman (bcl)
  • Bulgarian: осведоме́ност (bg) f (osvedoménost)
  • Catalan: coneixement (ca) m
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 知識 / 知识 (zh) (zhīshi), 學識 / 学识 (zh) (xuéshí)
  • Czech: vědomí (cs) n
  • Danish: viden (da), kendskab (da)
  • Dutch: medeweten (nl) n, weten (nl) n
  • Finnish: tietoisuus (fi)
  • French: connaissance (fr) f
  • Galician: coñecemento (gl) m
  • Georgian: შეცნობა (šecnoba), ცოდნა (ka) (codna)
  • German: Wissen (de) n, Kenntnis (de) f
  • Greek: γνώση (el) f (gnósi), επίγνωση (el) f (epígnosi)
  • Hebrew: הַכָּרָה (he) f (hakará)
  • Hindi: जागरूकता (hi) f (jāgrūktā)
  • Hungarian: tudomás (hu), tudta (hu)
  • Icelandic: vitneskja f
  • Interlingua: cognoscentia
  • Irish: fios m
  • Italian: conoscenza (it)
  • Japanese: 知識 (ja) (ちしき, chishiki), 学識 (ja) (がくしき, gakushiki)
  • Kazakh: білім (bılım)
  • Kurdish: Central Kurdish: زانیاری (ckb) (zanyarî)
  • Latin: notitia f, notio (la) f, agnitio f, cognitio f, intelligentia f
  • Maori: mōhiotanga
  • Navajo: íʼhooʼą́ąʼii
  • Persian: Iranian Persian: آگاهی (fa) (âgâhi), هُشِیاری (hošiyâri), اِطِّلاع (ettelâ')
  • Polish: świadomość (pl) f
  • Portuguese: conhecimento (pt) m, ciência (pt) f
  • Russian: зна́ние (ru) n (znánije), осведомлённость (ru) f (osvedomljónnostʹ)
  • Scottish Gaelic: fios m
  • Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: знáње n Roman: znánje (sh) n
  • Sicilian: canuscenza f, cugnizziuni f, nutizzia (scn) f
  • Spanish: conocimiento (es) m, conocencia (es) f (rural)
  • Swedish: kännedom (sv) c
  • Tamil: விழிப்பு (ta) (viḻippu), கவனம் (ta) (kavaṉam)
  • Telugu: జాగరూకత (te) (jāgarūkata)
  • Tok Pisin: save
  • Zazaki: hoşyari
familiarity with particular skill, discipline
  • Bikol Central: kaaraman (bcl)
  • Bulgarian: позна́ние (bg) n (poznánie)
  • Catalan: coneixements (ca) m pl
  • Finnish: tieto (fi), taito (fi)
  • French: connaissances (fr) f pl
  • Galician: coñecementos m pl
  • Georgian: ცოდნა (ka) (codna), გაგება (gageba)
  • Greek: γνώση (el) f (gnósi), εμπειρία (el) f (empeiría)
  • Hebrew: היכרות f (hekerút)
  • Icelandic: þekking (is) f, kunnátta (is) f
  • Irish: fios m
  • Kazakh: ғылым (kk) (ğylym)
  • Latin: notitia f, notio (la) f, agnitio f, cognitio f, intelligentia f
  • Portuguese: conhecimento (pt) m
  • Romanian: cunoaștere (ro)
  • Russian: зна́ние (ru) n (znánije), понима́ние (ru) n (ponimánije)
  • Scottish Gaelic: fios m
  • Sicilian: canuscenza f, majistrìa f, spirtizza f
  • Spanish: conocimientos (es) m pl, conocimiento (es) m
  • Tamil: அனுபவம் (ta) (aṉupavam)
  • Telugu: నైపుణ్యము (te) (naipuṇyamu)
  • Thai: ความรู้ (th) (kwaam-rúu)
  • Tok Pisin: save
total of what is known, product of learning
  • Armenian: գիտելիք (hy) (gitelikʻ)
  • Bikol Central: kaaraman (bcl)
  • Bulgarian: зна́ние (bg) n (znánie)
  • Catalan: coneixement (ca) m
  • Czech: znalost (cs)
  • Dutch: kennis (nl), weten (nl) n, wetenschap (nl)
  • Finnish: tieto (fi)
  • French: connaissances (fr) f pl, science (fr) f, savoir (fr) m, connaissance (fr)
  • Galician: coñecemento (gl), coñecementos m pl
  • Georgian: ცოდნა (ka) (codna)
  • Greek: γνώσεις (el) f pl (gnóseis), γνώση (el) f (gnósi)
  • Hebrew: יֶדַע (he) m (yéda)
  • Icelandic: þekking (is) f
  • Interlingua: cognoscentia
  • Italian: sapere (it) m
  • Korean: 지식 (ko) (jisik), 지혜 (ko) (jihye)
  • Latin: scientia (la) f, artes (la) f pl, disciplinae f pl, litterae (la) f pl, humanitas f, studia n pl
  • Navajo: íʼhooʼą́ąʼii, ił ééhózin
  • Persian: Iranian Persian: دانِش (fa) (dâneš)
  • Portuguese: conhecimento (pt) m
  • Romanian: cunoștințe (ro) f pl, știință (ro) f
  • Russian: зна́ния (ru) pl (znánija)
  • Sicilian: canuscenza f, sapiri (scn) m, scenzia (scn) f, studiu (scn) m
  • Spanish: conocimiento (es) m, conocencia (es) f (rural), conocimientos (es) m pl
  • Tok Pisin: save
  • Zazaki: zanış
sexual intercourse see carnal knowledge The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations. Translations to be checked
  • Albanian: (please verify) dituri (sq) n
  • Esperanto: (please verify) kono (eo)
  • Ewe: (please verify) sidzedze
  • Galician: (please verify) coñecemento (gl) m
  • Georgian: (please verify) ცოდნა (ka) (codna), (please verify) სწავლა (sc̣avla)
  • Hindi: (please verify) ज्ञान (hi) m (jñān), (please verify) बोध (hi) m (bodh), (please verify) बुद्धि (hi) f (buddhi), (please verify) इल्म (hi) m (ilm)
  • Icelandic: (please verify) þekking (is) f
  • Ido: (please verify) konoco (io)
  • Indonesian: (please verify) pengetahuan (id)
  • Interlingua: (please verify) cognoscentia
  • Korean: (please verify) 지식 (ko) (jisik), (please verify) 학문 (ko) (hangmun)
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  • Malayalam: (please verify) അറിവ് (ml) (aṟivŭ), (please verify) വിവരം (ml) (vivaraṁ)
  • Norwegian: Bokmål: (please verify) kunnskap (no) m
  • Romanian: (please verify) cunoștințe (ro) f
  • Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: (please verify) знање n, (please verify) ведност f Roman: (please verify) znanje (sh) n, (please verify) vednost f
  • Serbo-Croatian: (please verify) znanje (sh) n
  • Slovene: (please verify) vednost f, (please verify) znanje (sl) n
  • Telugu: (please verify) తెలివి (te) (telivi)
  • Thai: (please verify) ความรู้ (th) (kwaam-rúu)
  • Turkish: (please verify) bilgi (tr) n
  • Urdu: (please verify) علم (ur) m (ilm), (please verify) گیان m (gyān), (please verify) دانش f (dāniš), (please verify) معرفت (ur) f (ma'rifat), (please verify) بدھ (ur) f (buddhi), (please verify) بودھ m (bodh)
  • Vietnamese: (please verify) kiến thức (vi)
  • Woiwurrung: (please verify) ngarrgu

Verb

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knowledge (third-person singular simple present knowledges, present participle knowledging, simple past and past participle knowledged)

  1. (obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge. [13th–17th c.]
    • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt [] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew iij: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.

See also

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  • data
  • erudition
  • information
  • know-how
  • perception
  • wisdom

Further reading

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  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “knowledge”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
  • “knowledge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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