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Definition: General Knowledge |
General KnowledgeNoun1. Knowledge that is available to anyone. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: General KnowledgeSynonym: public knowledge (n). (additional references) |
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Adams | Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Whether those pleading orators were persons educated in the general knowledge of equity, or only in provincial, national, and other local customs. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
general knowledge quiz | 107 |
general knowledge | 89 |
general knowledge question | 37 |
general knowledge test | 28 |
general knowledge world | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "general knowledge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 常識 (common sense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yleistiedot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | allgemeinwissen, allgemeinbildung (general education, universal education). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eneralgay owledgeknay conhecimento geral, conhecimento econômico. (various references) sabio general, conocimiento general. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-e-g-g-k-l-l-n-n-o-r-w" | |
-5 letters: enkernelled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 6E 65 72 61 6C      4B 6E 6F 77 6C 65 64 67 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101100 00100000 01001011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01101100 01100101 01100100 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e n e r a l   K n o w l e d g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 006E 0065 0072 0061 006C      004B 006E 006F 0077 006C 0065 0064 0067 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)417180718467782458081897871707371 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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