Knower

noun

noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Agent noun of know: one who knows. agent, form-of

    "The doctor is the modern master of the mythological realm, the knower of all the secret ways and words of potency."

  2. 2
    a person who knows or apprehends wordnet

Example

More examples

"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."

Etymology

From know + -er.

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