knowledge
The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
Example
“His knowledge of Iceland was limited to what he'd seen on the Travel Channel.”
Other meanings
Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
“Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.”
Synonyms
- awareness
- learning
Related words
- elite ball knowledge
- book-knowledge
- content knowledge
- gendered knowledge
- knowledge graph
- knowledge map
- knowledge-box
- meta-knowledge
- principle of least knowledge
- safe in the knowledge
- to my knowledge
- to one's knowledge
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "knowleche".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “knowledge” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.