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Definition: All-knowing |
All-knowingAdjective1. Infinitely wise. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "all-knowing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1642. (references) |
Synonym: All-knowingSynonym: omniscient (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deity | Adjective: almighty, holy, hallowed, sacred, divine, heavenly, celestial; sacrosanct; all-knowing, all-seeing, all-wise; omniscient. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: All-knowing |
| English words defined with "all-knowing": Omniscious. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "all-knowing": Oracle, the. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "All-knowing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "All-knowing" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "all-knowing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | alwetend (omniscient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 所有知". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | alwetend (omniscient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | ĉioscia (omniscient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | alwittend (omniscient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | allwissend (all knowing, omniscient, omnisciently). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παντογνώστης (omniscient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | maha tahu (omniscient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | onnisciente (omniscient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 모" 아. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ooilley-tushtagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | all-knowingay omnisciente (omniscient). (various references) allvetande (omniscient). (various references) всезнаючий (omniscient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Avestan | 200-600 | vîspô-vîdhvå. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-k-l-l-n-n-o-w" | |
-2 letters: allowing, knolling. | |
-3 letters: ankling, knowing, lanolin, loaning, walking, walling. | |
-4 letters: awning, gallon, inwall, kalong, kaolin, laking, lawing, longan, lowing, owning, waking, waling, waning, wanion. | |
-5 letters: aglow, algin, align, allow, aloin, along, anion, awing, glial, gnawn, gonia, gowan, kiang, klong, knoll, known, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, llano, logan, logia, owing, wagon, wigan. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6C 2D 6B 6E 6F 77 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l l - k n o w i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006C 002D 006B 006E 006F 0077 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3578781577808189758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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