# knowledge

Pronunciation: say "NOL-ij" /ˈnɒlɪd͡ʒ/

## Noun

1. Understanding of or familiarity with a subject, place, or situation, gained by learning or experience.
   - Simple: What you know and understand about something, from learning or experience.
   - _Her knowledge of local history made the walking tour fascinating._
   - _Years abroad gave him a deep knowledge of the region's customs._
2. The whole body of what is known, including all information and products of learning.
   - Simple: All the facts and information that people have learned over time.
   - _The archive aims to preserve all human knowledge for future generations._
   - _Each discovery expands the sum of scientific knowledge._
3. Awareness of a particular fact or situation, especially after being informed of it.
   - Simple: The state of being aware of a fact, often after being told about it.
   - _He denied any knowledge of the missing funds._
   - _The contract was signed without her knowledge._
4. A branch of learning, a science, or a piece of information that can be known.
   - Simple: A subject or area of learning, or a single thing that can be known.
   - _Some researchers argue that farming, navigation, and healing are knowledges in their own right, each passed down through generations of practice._
   - _Rather than treating science as a single body of truth, the course looks at the many knowledges that shaped how people understood disease._
6. In philosophy, on the traditional account, belief that is both true and justified by adequate reasons.
   - Simple: In philosophy, traditionally, a belief that is true and that you have good reasons to hold.
   - _On the traditional view, knowledge requires truth, belief, and justification together._
   - _A correct guess does not amount to knowledge without justification._
8. The deep familiarity with London's routes and notable places that licensed taxi drivers must master. *(colloquial, UK)*
   - Simple: The detailed memory of London's streets and landmarks that taxi drivers must learn.
   - _Every London cabbie must pass the knowledge before earning a license._
   - _To become a London cab driver, he spent nearly three years mastering the Knowledge, street by street._

## Noun

5. Information or intelligence about something; notice or word of an event. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: News or information that someone has about something.
7. Sexual intimacy or intercourse, now chiefly surviving in the legal phrase carnal knowledge. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: Sex between two people, now found mostly in the phrase carnal knowledge.
   - _The indictment charged him with carnal knowledge of the complainant._
   - _Witnesses swore the couple had carnal knowledge of each other before the marriage was recorded._
9. Acknowledgement, or the act of admitting and recognizing something as true. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The act of admitting or accepting that something is true.

## Verb

10. To confess or admit something as true; to acknowledge it. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To admit or confess that something is true.

## Origin

From Middle English knoweleche, knowleche, from late Old English cnāwelǣċ ("acknowledgement"), formed from cnāwan ("to know") and a noun-forming suffix. It is related to Middle English knowelechen ("to find out, acknowledge").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/knowledge (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).