Roget's Thesaurus

#490. Knowledge

Nouns

knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence; acquaintance, experience, ken [Scot.], privity, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation etc. (judgment) 480; intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics. light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn; scent, suspicion; impression etc. (idea) 453; discovery etc. 480a. system of knowledge, body of knowledge; science, philosophy, pansophy; acroama; theory, aetiology, etiology; circle of the sciences; pandect, doctrine, body of doctrine; cyclopedia, encyclopedia; school etc. (system of opinions) 484. tree of knowledge; republic of letters etc. (language) 560. erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature; book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania, bibliolatry; information, general information; store of knowledge etc.; education etc. (teaching) 537; culture, menticulture, attainments; acquirements, acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency; practical knowledge etc. (skill) 698; liberal education; dilettantism; rudiments etc. (beginning) 66. deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning; omniscience, pantology. march of intellect; progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning; schoolmaster abroad. [person who knows much] scholar etc. 492.

Verbs

know, ken [Scot.], scan, wot; wot aware, be aware of etc. adj.; ween, weet, trow, have, possess. conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy [Slang], appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of, experience. know full well; have some knowledge of, possess some knowledge of; be au courant etc. adj.; have in one's head, have at one's fingers ends; know by heart, know by rote; be master of; connaitre le dessous des cartes [Fr.], know what's what etc. 698. see one's way; discover etc. 480a. come to one's knowledge etc. (information) 527.

Adjectives

knowing etc. v.; cognitive; acroamatic. aware of, cognizant of, conscious of; acquainted with, made acquainted with; privy to, no stranger to; au fait with, au courant; in the secret; up to, alive to; behind the scenes, behind the curtain; let into; apprized of, informed of; undeceived. proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at home in; conversant with, familiar with. erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated; well conned, well informed, well read, well grounded, well educated; enlightened, shrewd, savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book-learned; accomplished etc. (skillful) 698; omniscient; self-taught. known etc. v.; ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted; proverbial; familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy; hackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace. cognoscible, cognizable.

Adverbs

to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge.

Phrases

one's eyes being opened etc. (disclosure) 529; ompredre tout c'est tout pardonner [Fr.], to know all is to pardon all; empta dolore docet experientia [Lat.]; gnothi seauton [Gr.]; half our knowledge we must snatch not take [Pope]; Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher [G.], years teach more than books [G.]; knowledge comes but wisdom lingers [Tennyson]; knowledge is power [Bacon]; les affaires font les hommes [Fr.]; nec scire fas est omnia [Lat.] [Horace]; the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds [Emerson]; was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht heiss [G.].