Dictionary Entry
cognizance
cognizance is a 10-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation. Face value is 24 in Scrabble and 29 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 24 · Words With Friends 29 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation.
- 2noun
Recollection; recognition.
- 3noun
Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies.
- 4noun
The hearing a matter judicially.
- 5noun
An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done.
- 6noun
A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another.
- 7noun
The distinguishing mark worn by an armed knight, usually upon the helmet, and by his retainers and followers: Hence, in general, a badge worn by a retainer or dependent, to indicate the person or party to which he belonged; a token by which a thing may be known.
- 8noun
having knowledge of
"he had no awareness of his mistakes"
"his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced"
- 9noun
range or scope of what is perceived
- 10noun
range of what one can know or understand
"beyond my ken"
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