Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who knows.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who knows.
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- noun
Agent noun ofknow : one who knows.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who knows or apprehends
Etymologies
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Examples
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So all this together gives me, it is a reason to play this music, conducted by this deep, "kenner" we say in German, "knower" conductor, but also really
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Up. II, 4, 15); and Smriti also, 'Him who knows this they call the knower of the body' (Bha.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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The individual was in no true sense the knower; the knower was the "Reason" which operated through him.
democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education 1916
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The individual was in no true sense the knower; the knower was the "Reason" which operated through him.
Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education John Dewey 1905
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For to be a knower is to be the substrate of the quality of knowledge, and as the knowing Self is eternal, knowledge which is an essential quality of the Self is also eternal.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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'knower' -- which occurs in the concluding passage, 'How should he know the knower?'
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881
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If only we'd been there...maybe it's the romantic notion, by imagining you there (Jayf, with facial hair and all), as a Furst character who is just commenting on the going-on's of the story, makes me (a non-Furst "knower") consider picking it up (in June, yes).
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I guess you could say that I'm a "knower" and they're all "doers."
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I guess you could say that I'm a "knower" and they're all "doers."
Archive 2009-03-01 JLK 2009
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As the reader can quickly discover, Grey reveres Wetzel as a hunter, woodsman, and white "knower" of the wilderness.
Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997
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