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To know something means to have a piece of information or a certain understanding of something. If someone tells you their phone number and you remember it, you know.

There's a reason you can find the word know in the word knowledge — to know is to have knowledge about something, to be familiar with an idea, or to recognize someone. If you're "in the know," you have information that is only known to a select group of people. But be careful — to know someone in the Biblical sense means that you're having sexual relations with them.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: know

1
 vn
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people
2
 v
be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object
3
 v
have sexual intercourse with
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: know
1

v be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about

“I know that the President lied to the people”
“I want to know who is winning the game!”
“I know it's time”
Synonyms:
cognise, cognize
Antonyms:
ignore
be ignorant of or in the dark about
Types:
keep track
keep informed of fully aware
agnise, agnize, realise, realize, recognise, recognize
be fully aware or cognizant of

v be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt

“I know that I left the key on the table”
“Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun”
Synonyms
cognise, cognize
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
Types:
anticipate, foreknow, foresee, previse
realize beforehand

v have fixed in the mind

“I know Latin”
“This student knows her irregular verbs”
“Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?”
Types:
have down
have (something) mastered

v have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations

“I know the feeling!”
“have you ever known hunger?”
Synonyms:
experience, live
Types:
taste
experience briefly
live over, relive
experience again, often in the imagination
Type of:
experience, go through, see
go or live through

v be able to distinguish, recognize as being different

“The child knows right from wrong”
Type of:
differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart
mark as different

v know how to do or perform something

“She knows how to knit”
“Does your husband know how to cook?”
Types:
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be on the ball, be with it, know the score, know what's going on, know what's what
be well-informed
control, master
have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
get the hang, master
be or become completely proficient or skilled in
cinch
get a grip on; get mastery of

v accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority

Synonyms:
acknowledge, recognise, recognize
Type of:
accept
consider or hold as true

n the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people

“he is always in the know”
Type of:
knowing
a clear and certain mental apprehension
2

v be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object

“She doesn't know this composer”
“Do you know my sister?”
“We know this movie”
“I know him under a different name”
“This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily”

v perceive as familiar

“I know this voice!”
Type of:
call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, retrieve, think
recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

v know the nature or character of

“we all knew her as a big show-off”
Type of:
agnise, agnize, realise, realize, recognise, recognize
be fully aware or cognizant of
3

v have sexual intercourse with

“Adam knew Eve”
Synonyms:
bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with
make out, neck
kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion
Types:
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have, take
have sex with; archaic use
fornicate
have sex without being married
swing
engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
whore
have unlawful sex with a whore
wench
frequent prostitutes
bed-hop, bedhop, sleep around
be sexually active with more than one partner
Type of:
copulate, couple, mate, pair
engage in sexual intercourse
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