How many definitions of “knowledge” are given in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language?
You may use either the print version of the dictionary or the online version. (Do not confuse the word “knowledge” with the terms “knowledge engineer” or “knowledge base.”) Question 4: How many synonyms are given for the word “knowledge” and what are they? Question 5: What does NB mean? In which section of the MLA Handbook did you find the answer? Question 6: Where does the word “Bartleby” come from? Finally, let’s take this introductory exercise one step forward–the ultimate step when it comes to dictionaries. Look up “knowledge” in the multi-volume Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (found in the Beaman Library [Ref PE1625 .N53 1933], the downtown Nashville Public Library [423 O982, 1989], and in most college and university libraries). Read about the OED in A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students, pp. 64-65 and p. 88. The OED is the mother of all dictionaries–and more than a dictionary, for in it can be found the varying definitions of words in English for nearly a thousand years.
