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# knowledge

«knowledge» in Mova's school dictionary: **Information, facts and understanding that you have learned** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (knowledge — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Information, facts and understanding that you have learned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knowledge/#m1)

2) Knowing about something: «He did it without my knowledge». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knowledge/#m2)

3) All that people know about a subject: «scientific knowledge». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knowledge/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school: lessons build knowledge; we test our knowledge in quizzes; science knowledge grows as people test ideas. In stories: «Knowledge is power». Phrases: «to my knowledge» (as far as I know), «general knowledge», «common knowledge» (known by everyone), «without someone's knowledge», «a thirst for knowledge».

### examples

- Reading gives you knowledge about the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knowledge/#x1)
- Test your knowledge with our quiz! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knowledge/#x2)
- She has a lot of knowledge about dinosaurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knowledge/#x3)
- It's common knowledge that the earth goes around the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knowledge/#x4)
- To my knowledge, the shop is still open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knowledge/#x5)
- They took the car without his knowledge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knowledge/#x6)
- Scientific knowledge changes when we find new evidence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knowledge/#x7)
- It takes years to acquire great knowledge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knowledge/#x8)

### note

Uncountable: no «a knowledge» or «knowledges»; say «a lot of knowledge», «some knowledge». Silent k and d: «NOL-ij». Verb: know; adjective: knowledgeable (knowing a lot).

### In the corpora

- [A bot's knowledge may be out of date about matches, events and dates, and it may not search the web.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/12/)
- [Teachers can often tell when work is not a pupil's own, by style, knowledge and mistakes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/10-using-ai-to-learn-not-to-copy/13/)
- [Maya's friend says the Library of Alexandria burned in one night and all ancient knowledge was lost.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/2/)
- [God told Adam and Eve they could eat from every tree except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/8/)
- [Paul wrote that without love a person is only «a clanging cymbal», however great their gifts and knowledge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/20-paul-his-letters-and-the-way-of-love/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «knowledge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knowledge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.