knowledge
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
knowledge/ˈnɒlɪʤ/
▶noun
- 1 information and skills acquired through experience or education.
■ the sum of what is known.
■ Philosophy true, justified belief, as opposed to opinion.
- 2 awareness or familiarity gained by experience.
– phrases
come to one's knowledge become known to one.
to (the best of) my knowledge
come to one's knowledge become known to one.
to (the best of) my knowledge
- 1 so far as I know.
- 2 as I know for certain.
– origin ME (orig. as v. in the sense ‘acknowledge, recognize’): from an OE compound based on cnāwan (see know).
'knowledge' also found in these Oxford entries:
acknowledge
- apophatic
- a posteriori
- au fait
- authority
- aware
- Ayurveda
- back
- bodhisattva
- book learning
- botnet
- bo tree
- bush lawyer
- byway
- campcraft
- candid
- carnal knowledge
- cascade
- cataphatic
- charlatan
- cheder
- circulation
- clueless
- cognition
- cognizance
- competence
- competent
- computer-literate
- conscious
- consent
- creation science
- cunning
- defer
- definite article
- Dewey decimal classification
- dietetics
- dilettante
- discipline
- divination
- domain
- economics
- educated guess
- emotion
- empiricism
- encyclopedic
- encyclopedism
- enlighten
- epistemology
- erudite
- esoteric
