Meaning

• Noun

  1. The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
  2. Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
  3. Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
  4. Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.
  5. Justified true belief
  6. Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).
  7. (obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice.
  8. The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.
  9. Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.
  10. (obsolete) Acknowledgement.
  11. (obsolete) Notice, awareness.
  12. (informal) The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.

• Verb