Definitions for knows

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Spelling: [noh]

IPA: /noʊ/

Knows is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in knows (knosw).

Definitions for knows

noun

1. the fact or state of knowing; knowledge.
2. knoll1 .
3. the fact or state of knowing; knowledge.
4. knoll1 .

Idioms

1. in the know, possessing inside, secret, or special information.
2. know the ropes, Informal. to understand or be familiar with the particulars of a subject or business:
3. in the know, possessing inside, secret, or special information.
4. know the ropes, Informal. to understand or be familiar with the particulars of a subject or business:

verb (used with object)

1. to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty:
2. to have established or fixed in the mind or memory:
3. to be cognizant or aware of:
4. be acquainted with (a thing, place, person, etc.), as by sight, experience, or report:
5. to understand from experience or attainment (usually followed by how before an infinitive):
6. to be able to distinguish, as one from another:
7. Archaic. to have sexual intercourse with.
8. to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty:
9. to have established or fixed in the mind or memory:
10. to be cognizant or aware of:
11. be acquainted with (a thing, place, person, etc.), as by sight, experience, or report:
12. to understand from experience or attainment (usually followed by how before an infinitive):
13. to be able to distinguish, as one from another:
14. Archaic. to have sexual intercourse with.

verb (used without object)

1. to have knowledge or clear and certain perception, as of fact or truth.
2. to be cognizant or aware, as of some fact, circumstance, or occurrence; have information, as about something.
3. to have knowledge or clear and certain perception, as of fact or truth.
4. to be cognizant or aware, as of some fact, circumstance, or occurrence; have information, as about something.

Origin of knows

before 900; Middle English knowen, knawen, Old English gecnāwan; cognate with Old High German -cnāhan, Old Norse knā to know how, be able to; akin to Latin (g)nōvī, Greek gignṓskein. See

Examples for knows

I know that I have spoken of him as I ought not to have spoken.

They know they will face either a swift backlash or deafening silence.

It's the Viluca—Mr. Bines, you know; he's bringing his sister back to me.

Instead, the man and woman in the truck wanted to know where the crash site was and whether would I show them.

You know that Milbrey girl must get her effrontery direct from where they make it.

No one seems to know who that is—or why they would want to do such a thing.

Don't mind him, dad—I know all about it, I tell you—I'll explain later to you.

What they say is, ‘We don’t approve of violence, but you know what?

I mean, physically, mentally, you know, in every way, shape, and form.

Without reasons I was sure of, you know, so there could be no chance of any mistake.

Congress keeps funding it ad hoc—but when the GOP takes over the Senate next year, who knows.

At that point, who knows what they could have been capable of.

Block 3F is slated for release in 2019, but who knows how much that will slip?

They are valuable, but he can do but common things with them because he knows not their possibilities.

"Captain Haley knows very well the falsehood of what he says," said our hero, calmly.

“Iran knows who lives in each and every house here,” one man in a Turbat mosque tells me.

No one knows what that man suffers; it makes him gloomy all the time about everything.

I don't believe he will blame me when he knows the circumstances.

Come on; who knows how it is with the old man and little maid?

I wonder what that lady is doing now, and if she knows what she set in motion with Archer?