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knowlage

knowlage is the obsolete form of knowledge.

Meaning of knowledge

Noun

knowledge (usually uncountable, plural knowledges)

  1. (usually) The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
    • His knowledge of Iceland was limited to what he'd seen on the Travel Channel.
  2. (usually) Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
    • 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 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
  3. (usually) Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
    • Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.
  4. (usually) Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.
    • Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphs, perchance?
  5. (usually, philosophical) Justified true belief
  6. (archaic, usually) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).
    • 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, An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction, The Adventures of Master F.J.

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Questions about knowlage

What is knowlage the obsolete form of?
Knowlage is the obsolete form of knowledge.

Words near knowlage in the dictionary

  1. knowingly
  2. knowingness
  3. knowingnesses
  4. knowings
  5. knowlache
  6. knowlage
  7. Knowland
  8. Knowle
  9. Knowle West
  10. knowlech
  11. knowleche

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knowlage (page history and authors); knowledge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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