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Synonyms for know

have knowledge of

Synonyms

be acquainted with

Synonyms

  • be acquainted with
  • recognize
  • associate with
  • be familiar with
  • be friends with
  • be friendly with
  • have knowledge of
  • have dealings with
  • socialize with
  • fraternize with
  • be pals with

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  • be unfamiliar with

be familiar with

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  • be ignorant of
  • be unfamiliar with

Synonyms for know

to perceive directly with the intellect

to participate in or partake of personally

to undergo an emotional reaction

to perceive to be identical with something held in the memory

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to recognize as being different

Synonyms for know

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

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be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information

be aware of the truth of something

be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object

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

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

have fixed in the mind

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know the nature or character of

be able to distinguish, recognize as being different

References in classic literature?
I don't know how long or how short a time it was before you left the room to go and take off your bonnet -- you went, and your friend went with you.
Perhaps the suffering weakened me; perhaps it roused some old forgotten tenderness -- God knows! -- I can't explain it; I can only tell you that I began to think of Norah by day, and to dream of Norah by night, till I was almost heartbroken.
He says he knows it was all his fault, though he is sure he did the best he knew, and he says if Beauty dies no one will ever speak to him again.
I don't know," answered the shaggy man, with a laugh.
"My last supplication of all, is this; and with it, I will relieve you of a visitor with whom I well know you have nothing in unison, and between whom and you there is an impassable space.
MENO: If you want to have one definition of them all, I know not what to say, but that virtue is the power of governing mankind.
However, the long and the short of it is, that he has asked my permission to make you an offer of marriage--of marriage, you know," said Mr.
I know just how you feel, because after--after my father died, too, there wasn't anybody but the Ladies' Aid for me, until Aunt Polly said she'd take--" Pollyanna stopped abruptly.
"Don't irritate me--I'm bad enough without that--I don't know what I am doing sometimes.
You don't know how it's going to hurt, Bill; but it's the only thing to do.
She told me she did not know exactly how it was ordered, but she had been told that my mother had left a sum of money, and had tied her plantation for the payment of it, to be made good to the daughter, if ever she could be heard of, either in England or elsewhere; and that the trust was left with this son, who was the person that we saw with his father.
And now, when I tell thee of how his blindness came to be, thou wilt know, beyond question, that the daughter of Kinoos cannot mother the children of a coward such as thou art, Negore."
'He came back with Mr Lightwood, I know, near upon two hours ago.
To which Don Quixote replied, "What answer God will give to your complaints, housekeeper, I know not, nor what his Majesty will answer either; I only know that if I were king I should decline to answer the numberless silly petitions they present every day; for one of the greatest among the many troubles kings have is being obliged to listen to all and answer all, and therefore I should be sorry that any affairs of mine should worry him."
Everybody of any consequence or notoriety in Bath was well know by name to Mrs Smith.