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knowledge
English
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) knolege, knowlage, knowleche, knowledg, knowlege, knowliche, knowlych, knowlech
- (obsolete, uncommon, Scottish) knaulege, knaulage, knawlage
- (obsolete, uncommon) knoleche, knoleige, knowlache, knolych
- (obsolete, verb) knawlache
Etymology
From Middle English knowleche, knaweleche, cnawlece (“knowledge”), from knowen (“to know, recognise”) + -leche. Related to Middle English knowlechen (“to find out, acknowledge”). For more on the Middle English suffix -leche, compare freelage. Compare also Old English cn?wel??, cn?wel??ing (“acknowledging, acknowledgement”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?l?d?/
- (General American) enPR: n?l?ij, IPA(key): /?n?l?d?/
- (obsolete) enPR: n?l?ij, IPA(key): /?no?l?d?/
- Rhymes: -?l?d?
- Hyphenation UK: know?ledge, US: knowl?edge
Noun
knowledge (usually uncountable, plural knowledges)
- The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. [from 14th c.]
- Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something. [from 14th c.]
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
- He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
- Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information. [from 14th c.]
- Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc. [from 14th c.]
- (philosophical) Justified true belief
- (archaic or law) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge). [from 15th c.]
- 1573, George Gascoigne, "The Adventures of Master F.J.", An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction:
- Every time that he had knowledge of her he would leave, either in the bed, or in her cushion-cloth, or by her looking-glass, or in some place where she must needs find it, a piece of money […].
- 1573, George Gascoigne, "The Adventures of Master F.J.", An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction:
- (obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice. [15th-18th c.]
- 1580, Edward Hayes, "Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland", Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern, ed. Charles W Eliot, Cosimo 2005, p. 280:
- Item, if any ship be in danger […], every man to bear towards her, answering her with one light for a short time, and so to put it out again; thereby to give knowledge that they have seen her token.
- 1580, Edward Hayes, "Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland", Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern, ed. Charles W Eliot, Cosimo 2005, p. 280:
- The total of what is known; all information and products of learning. [from 16th c.]
- (countable) Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science. [from 16th c.]
- There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges.
- (obsolete) Acknowledgement. [14th-16th c.]
- (obsolete) Notice, awareness. [17th c.]
- 1611, The Bible, Authorized Version, Ruth II.10:
- Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
- 1611, The Bible, Authorized Version, Ruth II.10:
- (Britain, informal) The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.
- 2002, Malcolm Bobbitt, Taxi! - The Story of the London Cab
- There is only one sure way to memorise the runs and that is to follow them, either on foot, cycle or motor cycle; hence, the familiar sight of would-be cabbies learning the knowledge during evenings and weekends.
- 2002, Malcolm Bobbitt, Taxi! - The Story of the London Cab
Quotations
- 1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, pages ix-x:
- There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). […] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics. These debates inform this attempt at worlding women—moving beyond white western power centres and their dominant knowledges […].
Usage notes
- Adjectives often used with “knowledge”: extensive, deep, superficial, theoretical, practical, useful, working, encyclopedic, public, private, scientific, tacit, explicit, general, specialized, special, broad, declarative, procedural, innate, etc.
Synonyms
- awareness
- cognizance
- ken
- knowingness
- learning
Antonyms
- ignorance
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- know
- knowing
Translations
Verb
knowledge (third-person singular simple present knowledges, present participle knowledging, simple past and past participle knowledged)
- (obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge. [13th-17th c.]
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 3:
- Then went oute to hym Jerusalem, and all Jury, and all the region rounde aboute Jordan, and were baptised of hym in Jordan, knoledging their synnes.
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 3:
See also
- data
- erudition
- information
- know-how
- perception
- wisdom
Further reading
- knowledge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- knowledge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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suspicion
English
Alternative forms
- suspition (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Latin suspici?, suspici?nem, from suspicere, from sub- (“up to”) with specere (“to look at”). Perhaps partly through the influence of Old French sospeçon (or rather the Anglo-Norman form suspecioun).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?.?sp?.??n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
suspicion (countable and uncountable, plural suspicions)
- The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
- The condition of being suspected.
- Uncertainty, doubt.
- In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. […] Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
- A trace, or slight indication.
- 1879, Adolphus William Ward, Chaucer
- The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion […] of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
- 1879, Adolphus William Ward, Chaucer
- The imagining of something without evidence.
Derived terms
- suspicious
- suspect
- sneaking suspicion
Translations
Verb
suspicion (third-person singular simple present suspicions, present participle suspicioning, simple past and past participle suspicioned)
- (nonstandard, dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.
- Mulvaney continued— "Whin I was full awake the palanquin was set down in a street, I suspicioned, for I cud hear people passin' an' talkin'. But I knew well I was far from home. […]
- 2012, B. M. Bower, Cow-Country (page 195)
- "I've been suspicioning here was where they got their information right along," the sheriff commented, and slipped the handcuffs on the landlord.
Trivia
One of three common words ending in -cion, which are coercion, scion, and suspicion.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “suspicion”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin suspici?, suspici?nem. Confer soupçon, derived from a related formation but not an actual doublet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sys.pi.sj??/
Noun
suspicion f (plural suspicions)
- suspicion
Synonyms
- soupçon
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