Kilo Lingo

/ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/

Line drawing of knowledge
Coloured illustration of knowledge
#1676 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

All the facts and skills a person has learned. It has no plural.

Word origin

From Middle English knowlechen, built on know with an old ending that turned a verb into the name of a state.

Origin
Middle English
Root
knowlechen
English cognates
know, acknowledge

Examples

grammar .

"Knowledge of" something is what you know about it.

.

Here "knowledge" is what he has learned from years of work.

, .

"To my knowledge" means as far as I know.

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This word is part of lesson 34.