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All-knowing

Definition: All-knowing

All-knowing

Adjective

1. 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-knowing

Synonym: omniscient (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: All-knowing

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: All-knowing

English words defined with "all-knowing": Omniscious. (references)
Specialty definitions using "all-knowing": Oracle, the. (references)

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Commercial Usage: All-knowing

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Possibility of an All-Knowing God (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: All-knowing

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)66.67%2245,945
Noun (singular)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: All-knowing

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

   

Spanish

  

omnisciente (omniscient). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

allvetande (omniscient). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

всезнаючий (omniscient). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: All-knowing

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Avestan200-600

vîspô-vîdhvå. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: All-knowing

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: All-knowing


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 6C 2D 6B 6E 6F 77 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#108 &#45 &#107 &#110 &#111 &#119 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 006C 002D 006B 006E 006F 0077 0069 006E 0067

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3578781577808189758073

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INDEX

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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