Usually means: Awareness or understanding through experience.
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  1. know: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. know: Merriam-Webster
  3. know, know: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. know: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. know: Collins English Dictionary
  6. know: Vocabulary.com
  7. Know, know, know, know: Wordnik
  8. know: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. know: Wiktionary
  10. know: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. know: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. know: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Know, know: Dictionary.com
  14. know: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. know: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Know. (Jason Mraz album), Know (album), Know, The Know (TV program), The Know (band), The Know: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Know: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. know: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. know: Rhymezone
  20. know: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. know: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. know: FreeDictionary.org
  23. know: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. know: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. know: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. know: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. know: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. KNOW: Acronym Finder
  3. know: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. know: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. know: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
verb:  (intransitive) To be or become aware or cognizant.
verb:  (transitive) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To be acquainted (with another person).
verb:  (transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
verb:  (transitive, archaic, biblical, euphemistic) To have sexual relations with. This meaning normally specified in modern English as e.g. to ’know someone in the biblical sense’ or to ‘know biblically.’
verb:  (transitive) To experience.
verb:  To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
verb:  (transitive) To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
verb:  (transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
verb:  (intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
verb:  (transitive) To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
verb:  (transitive) To have indexed and have information about within one's database.
verb:  (transitive, philosophy) To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.
noun:  (rare) Knowledge; the state of knowing.
noun:  Knowledge; the state of knowing. (Now confined to the fixed phrase in the know.)
noun:  Alternative form of knowe (“hill, knoll”) [(chiefly Scotland and Ulster) A small hill; a knoll.]

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