Definition of Knower

1. Noun. A person who knows or apprehends.

Exact synonyms: Apprehender
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Derivative terms: Apprehend, Apprehend, Know

Definition of Knower

1. n. One who knows.

Definition of Knower

1. Noun. (non-gloss definition Agent noun of know:) one who knows. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Knower

1. one that knows [n -S] - See also: knows

Lexicographical Neighbors of Knower

know the score
know what's going on
know what's what
knowability
knowable
knowableness
knowably
knowbie
knowbies
knowbot
knowbots
knowe
knowed
knowen
knower (current term)
knowers
knowes
knowest
knoweth
knowhatimean
knowhow
knowhows
knowin'
knowing
knowing someone in the biblical sense
knowinger
knowingest
knowingly
knowingness

Literary usage of Knower

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Genetic Theory of Reality: Being the Outcome of Genetic Logic as Issuing in by James Mark Baldwin (1915)
"The Esthetic non-relative as respects the Relation of knower and Known 20. The last form of relativity pointed out above as attaching to constructions which ..."

2. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1864)
"Before this time knower had consigned boots and shoes to a large amount to divers ... Emerson then signed and delivered to knower the following contract ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Ephraim Williams, Dudley Atkins Tyng, Octavius Pickering, Theron Metcalf, Luther Stearns Cushing, Horace Gray, Charles Allen, Albert Gallatin Browne (1864)
"SAMUEL knower versus WILLIAM EMERSON The plaintiff, being largely ... knower, the plaintiff, on October 29th, 1825, being largely indebted to the firms of ..."

4. American Journal of Dental Science by American Society of Dental Surgeons (1879)
"Dr. knower was a graduate of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, of the Class of 1859. After receiving his dental degree, Dr. knower commenced ..."

5. Bhagavad-Gita As It Is: With the Original Sanskrit Text, Roman by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1989)
"Thus there is a difference between the knower of the field of activities and the ... These are the bodily designations of the knower. But the knower is ..."

6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1906)
"knower. 37 Hun. 609. the fact that the property was deliverable and the purchase money payable at different times in the future did not necessarily deprive ..."

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