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know¹

  • /nəʊ/ UK
  • /no/ Scotland
  • /nou/ Wales
  • /naː/ Northumbria
  • /noʊ/ US
  • /nəʉ/ Australia

Sounds like no, noh (both toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwan (“to know, perceive, recognise”), from Proto-West Germanic *knāan, from Proto-Germanic *knēaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).

Cognates

* from Proto-Germanic: Scots knaw (“to know, recognise”), Icelandic knega (“to know, know how to, be able”), Old High German knājan (“to know, recognise”), Old Norse kná (“to know how”). Remotely related also Dutch and German kennen, West Frisian kenne (see English ken).

* from Indo-European: Latin gnoscō, Latin cognoscō (Spanish conocer, French connaître, Romanian cunoaște, Italian conoscere, Portuguese conhecer), Ancient Greek γνωρίζω (gnōrízō, “to know”) and γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”), Albanian njoh (“to know, recognise”), Russian знать (znatʹ, “to know”), Lithuanian žinoti (“to know”), Persian شناختن (šenâxtan, “to know”) and Hindi जानना (jānnā, “to know, understand”).

verb knows · knowing · knew · knowed · known

  1. transitive To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that. Question things. I have the most fun when I'm writing questioning things that people do not question- the assumptions that everybody knows are true.
  2. intransitive To be or become aware or cognizant. Did you know Michelle and Jack were getting divorced? ― Yes, I knew.
  3. transitive To be aware of; to be cognizant of. Did you know Michelle and Jack were getting divorced? ― Yes, I knew.
  4. intransitive, obsolete To be acquainted (with another person). You, and I haue knowne ſir.
  5. transitive To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered. I know your mother, but I've never met your father.
  6. archaic, euphemistic, transitive To have sexual relations with. This meaning normally specified in modern English as e.g. to ‘know someone in the biblical sense’ or to ‘know biblically’. AFterwarde the man knewe Heuáh his wife, which cõceiued & bare Káin, & ſaid, I haue obteined a man by yͤ Lord.
  7. transitive To experience. Their relationship knew ups and downs.
  8. To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study. Let me do it. I know how it works.
  9. transitive To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of. to know a person's face or figure
  10. transitive To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change. At nearer view he thought he knew the dead, / And call'd the wretched man to mind.
  11. intransitive To have knowledge; to have information, be informed. It is vital that he not know.
  12. transitive To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music). Do you know "Blueberry Hill"?
  13. transitive To have indexed and have information about within one's database. Mmm... Seems you searched for a name that we don't know, we'll send our trained monkeys to check what's in stock.
  14. transitive To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.

Similar: go to bed with, sleep with

noun knaa · knowe

  1. rare, uncountable Knowledge; the state of knowing. That on the view and know of theſe Contents, […] He ſhould the bearers put to […] death, […]
  2. uncountable Knowledge; the state of knowing. (Now confined to the fixed phrase in the know.)

know²

  • /nəʊ/ UK
  • /no/ Scotland
  • /nou/ Wales
  • /naː/ Northumbria
  • /noʊ/ US
  • /nəʉ/ Australia

Sounds like no, noh (both toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ

noun knows

  1. alternative Alternative form of knowe (“hill, knoll”).knowe Owing to increasing numbers and consequent want of room for nestage, the old birds drove away the younger ones, who took refuge in their present abode at Fox's Know, where they have been located about six years.

know³

  • /noʊ/ Singapore
  • [noː˨˦] Singapore
  • [ˈno(˧˨)] Singapore, emphatic
  • /nəʊ/ UK
  • /no/ Scotland
  • /nou/ Wales
  • /naː/ Northumbria
  • /noʊ/ US
  • /nəʉ/ Australia

Sounds like no, noh (both toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

Shortening of you know (sense 4)—Singapore English favours pro-drop constructions (Wee, 2003).

particle

  1. Singlish Used at the end of a sentence to draw attention to information one thinks the listener should keep in mind. Make sure you water the plants, know…

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