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Most common English words: living « view « although « #533: knowledge » hath » table » daughter

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From Middle English knowleche, from knowen "to recognize, know" from Old English cnāwan + -leche a suffix derived from Old English -lǣcan verbal suffix denoting activity, from lāc a verbal noun suffix, cf. wedlock

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Singular
knowledge

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural knowledges

knowledge (countable and uncountable; plural knowledges)

  1. Relevant information that one is able to recall from memory.
  2. All cognitive expectancies that an individual or organization actor uses to interpret situations and to generate activities.
  3. (countable, chiefly academic) A specific body of knowledge of any kind, on some subject or in some field.
  4. Awareness resulting from informing.
    He completed it entirely without my knowledge.
  5. Acquired information gained through personal experiences making it unique for each individual.
  6. The knowable, potential knowledge
  7. The product of assumption.
  8. Recognition of cause and effect.
  9. (archaic) Sexual intercourse; rare except in Biblical context

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  • Adjectives often used with “knowledge”: extensive, deep, superficial, theoretical, practical, useful, working, encyclopedic, public, private, scientific, tacit, explicit, general, specialized, special, broad, declarative, procedural, etc.

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