knowverb
uk/nəʊ/us/noʊ/knew, knownknow verb (HAVE INFORMATION)
A1 [ I or T, not continuous ] to have information in your mind:
A1 [ T not continuous ] used to ask someone to tell you a piece of information:
A2 [ I or T, not continuous ] to be certain:
More examples
- "Will the table fit in here?" "I don't know - let's measure it."
- I still don't know whether she's coming or not.
- It's a bit suspicious that no one knows where he was at the time of the murder.
- No one knew how many troops had died in combat.
- "He's been married three times." "Oh, really? I didn't know that!"
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Learning & knowing
- assimilate
- autodidact
- blended learning
- bone up
- brain training
- by-heart
- deskill
- feel
- gen up
- hit
- know better (than sb) idiom
- knowable
- mug
- mug (sth) up
- pick sth up
- quick
- reskill
- revision
- specialize
- tell
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know verb (BE FAMILIAR WITH)
B1 [ T not continuous ] to be familiar with or have experience and understanding of:
B1 [ I or T, not continuous ] also know about If you know a subject, you are familiar with it and understand it:
A2 [ T not continuous ] If you know a language, you can speak and understand it:
[ T not continuous ] to recognize someone or something:
A2 to be able to do something because you have the necessary knowledge:
B1 to spend time with someone or something so that you gradually learn more about him, her, or it:
to have heard the name of a person but not seen or talked to them
If you know someone by sight, that person looks familiar to you, but is not a friend of yours.
More examples
- I know the first verse of the song, but I don't know what comes next.
- If you don't know what the word means, look it up in a dictionary.
- It's always awkward when you meet someone you know, but you can't remember their name.
- He knows a lot of people, but only one or two that he'd call close friends.
- I hope she knows where to get off the bus.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Learning & knowing
- assimilate
- autodidact
- blended learning
- bone up
- brain training
- by-heart
- deskill
- feel
- gen up
- hit
- know better (than sb) idiom
- knowable
- mug
- mug (sth) up
- pick sth up
- quick
- reskill
- revision
- specialize
- tell
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Idiom(s)
Phrasal verb(s)
knownoun
uk/nəʊ/us/noʊ/informalto have knowledge about something that most people do not have:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Aware
- abreast
- acquainted
- alive
- alive to sth idiom
- awake
- awakening
- be no stranger to sth idiom
- conscious
- familiar
- genned up
- have/keep your finger on the pulse idiom
- informed
- insider
- ivory tower
- onto
- preliterate
- privy
- put sb in the picture idiom
- repository
- sad
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