Dictionary.com

Popular Searches

 Thesaurus.com
Synonyms

knew

American  
[noo, nyoo] / nu, nyu /

verb

  1. simple past tense of know.

knew British  
/ njuː /

verb

  1. the past tense of know

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“I knew I wanted to be a cartoonist from the time I was 5,” he told the New York Times in 2003.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her sleeping quarters in the second room weren’t much bigger than a closet, but I already knew where I’d fit my bed.

From Literature

It would be his job to restore them to the heights they knew with his father.

From The Wall Street Journal

“When we decided to live here full time, we knew that Portia couldn’t live without her horses,” DeGeneres told the Wall Street Journal.

From MarketWatch

Realising undercover police officers were waiting off court was the moment Oliver Anderson knew he had been rumbled.

From BBC

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.