Definition of know

"know" in the noun sense

1. know

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

"he is always in the know"

"know" in the verb sense

1. know, cognize, cognise

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"

2. know

know how to do or perform something

"She knows how to knit"

"Does your husband know how to cook?"

3. know

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"

4. know

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"

5. know, experience, live

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

"I know the feeling!"

"have you ever known hunger?"

"I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"

"The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"

"I lived through two divorces"

6. acknowledge, recognize, recognise, know

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

"The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne"

"We do not recognize your gods"

7. know

have fixed in the mind

"I know Latin"

"This student knows her irregular verbs"

"Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?"

8. sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk

have sexual intercourse with

"This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"

"Adam knew Eve"

"Were you ever intimate with this man?"

9. know

know the nature or character of

"we all knew her as a big show-off"

10. know

be able to distinguish, recognize as being different

"The child knows right from wrong"

11. know

perceive as familiar

"I know this voice!"

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Quotations for know

Labor, you know, is prayer. [ Bayard Taylor ]

One cannot know everything. [ Horace ]

Not if I know myself at all. [ Charles Lamb ]

Few people know how to be old. [ La Roche ]

If three know it, all know it. [ Italian Proverb ]

The brave only know how to forgive. [ Sterne ]

Our wills are ours, we know not how. [ Tennyson ]

We cannot wish for that we know not. [ Voltaire ]

Every one speaks of it, few know it. [ Mme. Roland ]

They most assume who know the least. [ Gay ]

Only so much do I know as I have lived. [ Emerson ]

A woman conceals what she does not know. [ Proverb ]

Let them obey that know not how to rule. [ William Shakespeare ]

We should know (a person) before we love. [ Martial D'Auvergne ]

Some folks are drunk, yet do not know it. [ Prior ]

They that know no evil will suspect none. [ Ben Jonson ]

Who does know the bent of woman's fantasy. [ Spenser ]

Women know not the whole of their coquetry. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

We know not what we do When we speak words. [ Shelley ]

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. [ William Shakespeare ]

All wish to know, but no one to pay the fee. [ Juv ]

Who does not know the bent of woman's fancy? [ Spenser ]

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. [ Socrates ]

Science does not know its debt to imagination. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact. [ George Canning ]

All would like to know, but few to pay the price. [ Juv ]

Know not what you know, and see not what you see. [ Plautus ]

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [ Rousseau ]

Every man is a volume if you know bow to read him. [ Channing ]

Men know life too early, women know life too late. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

If you would know and not be known, live in a city. [ Colton ]

They only are wise who know that they know nothing. [ Carlyle ]

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [ Richelieu ]

To know how to wait is the great secret of success. [ De Maistre ]

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. [ Montaigne ]

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. [ William Shakespeare ]

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists. [ Robert Greene ]

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. [ Bible ]

You, if you are wise, will not know what you do know. [ Ter ]

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least. [ Michelet ]

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Being a man, know and remember always that thou art one. [ Philemon Comicus ]

Ground not upon dreams, you know they are ever contrary. [ Thos. Middleton ]

It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. [ Quintus Curtius Rufus ]

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not. [ George Eliot ]

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends. [ William Penn ]

To know one profession only, is enough for one man to know. [ Goldsmith ]

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance. [ Hosea Ballou ]

A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. [ Tupper ]

The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it. [ Carlyle ]

A college education shows a man how little other people know. [ Haliburton ]

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardies. [ Daniel ]

Ye who dwell at home, ye do not know the terrors of the main. [ Southey ]

As pure in thought as angels are, to know her was to love her. [ Rogers ]

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep. [ Earl of Beaconstield ]

I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere. [ Tennyson ]

If one know them they are in the terrors of the shadow of death. [ Bible ]

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. [ Confucius ]

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. [ Voltaire ]

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. [ Burke ]

One single positive weighs more. You know, than negatives a score. [ Prior ]

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so. [ Camden ]

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. [ Cicero ]

Celebrity: the advantage of being known to those who do not know us. [ Chamfort ]

Animals feed, men eat; but only men of intelligence know how to eat. [ Brillat-Savarin ]

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else. [ H. W. Shaw ]

The secret of making one's self tiresome is not to know when to stop. [ Voltaire ]

The only thing that grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is. [ Emerson ]

Know this, that he that is a friend of himself is a friend to all men. [ Seneca ]

He will always be a slave, who does not know how to live upon a little. [ Horace ]

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. [ St. Augustine ]

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good. [ Sophocles ]

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. [ Swift ]

Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. [ George Chapman ]

It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Better be a cuckold and not know it, than be none, and every body say so. [ Proverb ]

I envy no man that knows more than my self, but pity them that know less. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

We know God easily, provided we do not constrain ourselves to define Him. [ Joubert ]

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense. [ La Place ]

Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least. [ Gay ]

The gods know all countries; by navigation we equal the gods in knowledge. [ Pharaoh Neclues ]

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, God help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. [ Congreve ]

A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know yourself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about. [ George Eliot ]

I know no such thing as genius - genius is nothing but labor and diligence. [ Hogarth ]

Less coin, less care; to know how to dispense with wealth is to possess it. [ Reynard ]

The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done. [ Columella ]

It is nothing for you to know a thing unless another knows that you know it. [ Pers ]

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. [ Goethe ]

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. [ La Roche ]

I have given suck, and know how tender it is to love the babe that milks me. [ William Shakespeare ]

Away! we know that tears are vain, that death never heeds nor hears distress. [ Byron ]

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Men who flatter women do not know them; men who abuse them know them still less. [ Mme. de Salm ]

Great names degrade instead of elevating those who know not how to sustain them. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Better to know the darker sides of life, than to slumber in dangerous illusions. [ De Finod ]

know in Scrabble®

The word know is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters know:

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know in Words With Friends™

The word know is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters know:

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Words within the letters of know

2 letter words in know (3 words)

3 letter words in know (4 words)

4 letter words in know (1 word)

know + 1 blank (4 words)

know + 2 blanks (3 words)

Word Growth involving know

Shorter words in know

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Longer words containing know

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