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knowledge Definition


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knowledge
noun
    1. The fact of knowing; awareness; understanding.
      Thesaurus: learning, erudition, scholarship, education, book-learning, wisdom, cognizance, enlightenment, apprehension, comprehension, discernment, judgement, insight; Antonym: ignorance, pretension.
    2. What one knows; the information one has acquired through learning or experience.
    3. Learning; the sciences.
      Example: a branch of knowledge
    4a. Specific information about a subject;
    4b. The detailed information about streets, routes, etc that London taxi-drivers are tested on before they are licensed.
      Form: the knowledge
Idiom: to one's knowledge (to the best of one's knowledge)
    As far as one knows.
Etymology: 14c as knouleche.



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