Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word KNOWLEDGE

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Definitions of KNOWLEDGE

1. A course of study which must be completed by prospective London taxi drivers; consists of 320 routes through central London and many significant places.
2. The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. [from 14th c.]
3. Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something. [from 14th c.]
4. Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information. [from 14th c.]
5. Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc. [from 14th c.]
6. (philosophical) Justified true belief
7. (archaic or legal) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge). [from 15th c.]
8. (obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice. [15th]
9. The total of what is known; all information and products of learning. [from 16th c.]
10. (countable) Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science. [from 16th c.]
11. (obsolete) Acknowledgement. [14th]
12. (obsolete) Notice, awareness. [17th c.]
13. (UK, informal) The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.
14. (obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge. [13th]

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Examples of Using KNOWLEDGE in a Sentence

• Adventures are often undertaken to create psychological arousal or in order to achieve a greater goal, such as the pursuit of knowledge that can only be obtained by such activities.
• He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality.
• Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays.
• Established in 1753, the British Museum was the first public national museum to cover all fields of knowledge.
• It is dedicated to the self-examination of reason with the aim of exposing its inherent limitations, that is, to defining the possibilities of knowledge as a prerequisite to advancing to knowledge itself.
• Critical theory – the examination and critique of society and culture, drawing from knowledge across the social sciences and humanities.
• A cabal is a group of people who are united in some close design, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, a state, or another community, often by intrigue and usually without the knowledge of those who are outside their group.
• Cartesian anxiety, a hope that studying the world will give us unchangeable knowledge of ourselves and the world.
• The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) is a private, non-profit foundation dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematical knowledge.
• Since the 17th century and during the Age of Enlightenment, especially in 18th-century England, France, and North America, various Western philosophers and theologians formulated a critical rejection of the several religious texts belonging to the many organized religions, and began to appeal only to truths that they felt could be established by reason as the exclusive source of divine knowledge.
• Also called theory of knowledge, it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowledge in the form of skills, and knowledge by acquaintance as a familiarity through experience.
• Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.
• Encyclopedias have existed for around 2,000 years and have evolved considerably during that time as regards language (written in a major international or a vernacular language), size (few or many volumes), intent (presentation of a global or a limited range of knowledge), cultural perspective (authoritative, ideological, didactic, utilitarian), authorship (qualifications, style), readership (education level, background, interests, capabilities), and the technologies available for their production and distribution (hand-written manuscripts, small or large print runs, Internet).
• Early knowledge of how charged substances interact is now called classical electrodynamics, and is still accurate for problems that do not require consideration of quantum effects.
• An expert is somebody who has a broad and deep understanding and competence in terms of knowledge, skill and experience through practice and education in a particular field or area of study.
• Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, morals, beliefs, habits, and personal development.
• In this philosophical school of thought, the aim is to instill students with the "essentials" of academic knowledge, enacting a back-to-basics approach.
• Expert systems are designed to solve complex problems by reasoning through bodies of knowledge, represented mainly as if–then rules rather than through conventional procedural programming code.
• Encyclopedia Brown is a series of books featuring the adventures of boy detective Leroy Brown, nicknamed "Encyclopedia" for his intelligence and range of knowledge.
• In philosophy, empiricism is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence.

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