Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who knows.
Wiktionary
- n. Agent noun of know: one who knows.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who knows.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who knows or apprehends
Etymologies
- to know + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“So all this together gives me, it is a reason to play this music, conducted by this deep, "kenner" we say in German, "knower" conductor, but also really”
“Up. II, 4, 15); and Smriti also, 'Him who knows this they call the knower of the body' (Bha.”
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
“The individual was in no true sense the knower; the knower was the "Reason" which operated through him.”
democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
“For to be a knower is to be the substrate of the quality of knowledge, and as the knowing Self is eternal, knowledge which is an essential quality of the Self is also eternal.”
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
“knower' -- which occurs in the concluding passage, 'How should he know the knower?”
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
“If only we'd been there...maybe it's the romantic notion, by imagining you there (Jayf, with facial hair and all), as a Furst character who is just commenting on the going-on's of the story, makes me (a non-Furst "knower") consider picking it up (in June, yes).”
“I guess you could say that I'm a "knower" and they're all "doers.”
“As the reader can quickly discover, Grey reveres Wetzel as a hunter, woodsman, and white "knower" of the wilderness.”
““What gives truth to the things known and the power to know to the knower is the Form of the Good.”
“As thus the latter passage evidently aims at proving the absence of specific cognition, we have to conclude that the word 'knower' is here used to denote that being which is knowledge, i.e. the Self.”
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
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