Usually means: Awareness or knowledge of something.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. cognisance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. cognisance: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cognisance: Vocabulary.com
  4. cognisance: Wordnik
  5. cognisance: Wiktionary
  6. cognisance: Dictionary.com
  7. Cognisance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. cognisance: Rhymezone
  9. cognisance: FreeDictionary.org
  10. cognisance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. cognisance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cognisance: Legal dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cognisance: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of cognizance [An emblem, badge or device, used as a distinguishing mark by the body of retainers of a royal or noble house.]

Similar:
cognizance, cognisant, cognize, cognise, retributory, noesis, belike, vindicatory, channelise, inquisitory, more...

Opposite:
ignorance, unawareness, unfamiliarity

Phrases:
take cognisance, taking cognisance, takes cognisance, took cognisance, more...

Adjectives:
full, official, due, direct, little, immediate, own, special, personal, judicial, exclusive

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Similar:
cognizance, cognisant, cognize, cognise, retributory, noesis, belike, vindicatory, channelise, inquisitory, more...

Opposite:
ignorance, unawareness, unfamiliarity

Phrases:
take cognisance, taking cognisance, takes cognisance, took cognisance, more...

Adjectives:
full, official, due, direct, little, immediate, own, special, personal, judicial, exclusive



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