'Intelligence' definitions:
Definition of 'intelligence'
(from WordNet)
noun
The ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience [ant: stupidity]
noun
A unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy [syn: intelligence, intelligence service, intelligence agency]
noun
Secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy); "we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage" [syn: intelligence, intelligence information]
noun
Information about recent and important events; "they awaited news of the outcome" [syn: news, intelligence, tidings, word]
noun
The operation of gathering information about an enemy [syn: intelligence, intelligence activity, intelligence operation]
Definition of 'Intelligence'
From: GCIDE
- Intelligence \In*tel"li*gence\, n. [F. intelligence, L. intelligentia, intellegentia. See Intelligent.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. [1913 Webster]
- And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Information communicated; news; notice; advice. [1913 Webster]
- Intelligence is given where you are hid. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information. Specifically; (Mil.) Information about an enemy or potential enemy, his capacities, and intentions. [1913 Webster]
- I write as he that none intelligence Of meters hath, ne flowers of sentence. --Court of Love. [1913 Webster]
- 6. An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Mil.) The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy. [PJC]
- Intelligence office, an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.
- Syn: Understanding; intellect; instruction; advice; notice; notification; news; information; report. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'intelligence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- account,
- acquaintance,
- acumen,
- advice,
- alertness,
- announcement,
- apprehension,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- astuteness,
- atua,
- blue book,
- brain,
- brains,
- briefing,
- brightness,
- broadcast journalism,
- bugging,
- bulletin,
- capacity,
- clairvoyance,
- cleverness,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- command,
- common sense,
- communication,
- communique,
- comprehension,
- conception,
- conceptualization,
- consciousness,
- corpus,
- counterespionage,
- counterintelligence,
- daemon,
- data,
- datum,
- demon,
- directory,
- discernment,
- discourse of reason,
- discretion,
- discursive reason,
- dispatch,
- docility,
- dope,
- educability,
- electronic surveillance,
- enlightenment,
- espial,
- espionage,
- esprit,
- evidence,
- evil spirits,
- experience,
- expertise,
- facility,
- facts,
- factual base,
- factual information,
- familiarity,
- familiarization,
- findings,
- following,
- foreknowledge,
- gen,
- general information,
- genius,
- grasp,
- gray matter,
- grip,
- guidebook,
- handout,
- hard information,
- head,
- headpiece,
- ideation,
- impressionability,
- incidental information,
- info,
- information,
- inside,
- insight,
- instruction,
- intellect,
- intellection,
- intellectual,
- intellectual faculty,
- intelligence bureau,
- intelligence service,
- intelligence work,
- intimacy,
- journalism,
- judgment,
- keenness,
- ken,
- know-how,
- knowing,
- knowledge,
- light,
- low-down,
- malleability,
- mastery,
- mens,
- mental capacity,
- mental grasp,
- mentality,
- mention,
- message,
- military intelligence,
- mind,
- moldability,
- mother wit,
- motivation,
- naval intelligence,
- news,
- news agency,
- news medium,
- news service,
- newsiness,
- newsletter,
- newsmagazine,
- newspaper,
- newsworthiness,
- notice,
- notification,
- nous,
- observation,
- perception,
- percipience,
- perspicaciousness,
- perspicacity,
- plasticity,
- pliability,
- poop,
- power of reason,
- practical knowledge,
- precognition,
- prehension,
- presentation,
- press association,
- private knowledge,
- privity,
- promotional material,
- proof,
- psyche,
- publication,
- publicity,
- quickness,
- radio,
- ratio,
- ratio cognoscendi,
- rationality,
- readiness,
- reason,
- reasoning,
- reasoning faculty,
- receptivity,
- release,
- report,
- reportage,
- sagacity,
- savvy,
- secret police,
- secret service,
- self-knowledge,
- sense,
- shadowing,
- shrewdness,
- sidelight,
- smarts,
- specter,
- spirit,
- spying,
- stakeout,
- statement,
- supernatural being,
- surveillance,
- susceptibility,
- tailing,
- teachability,
- teachableness,
- technic,
- technics,
- technique,
- telegraph agency,
- television,
- the dope,
- the fourth estate,
- the goods,
- the know,
- the press,
- the scoop,
- tidings,
- trailing,
- trainableness,
- transmission,
- understanding,
- Vernunft,
- white book,
- white paper,
- willingness,
- wire service,
- wiretap,
- wiretapping,
- wisdom,
- wise man,
- wit,
- word
Words containing 'Intelligence'
- Intelligency,
- Intelligent,
- Intelligently,
- Intelligibility,
- Intelligible,
- Intelligibleness,
- Intelligibly,
- Intelligence office,
- adult intelligence,
- army intelligence,
- artificial intelligence,
- borderline intelligence,
- combat intelligence,
- communications intelligence,
- current intelligence,
- electronics intelligence,
- intelligence activity,
- intelligence agency,
- intelligence agent,
- intelligence analyst,
- intelligence cell,
- intelligence community,
- intelligence information,
- intelligence officer,
- intelligence operation,
- intelligence quotient,
- intelligence service,
- intelligence test,
- intelligence work,
- military intelligence,
- nonverbal intelligence,
- security intelligence,
- signals intelligence,
- speech intelligibility,
- strategic intelligence,
- tactical intelligence,
- telemetry intelligence,
- terrain intelligence,
- verbal intelligence,
- bureau of intelligence and research,
- central intelligence agency,
- central intelligence machinery,
- defense intelligence agency,
- department of energy intelligence,
- director of central intelligence,
- foreign intelligence service,
- international intelligence agency,
- iraqi intelligence service,
- military intelligence agency,
- national intelligence community,
- office of intelligence support,
- office of naval intelligence,
- secret intelligence service,
- canadian security intelligence service,
- criminal intelligence services of canada,
- foreign intelligence surveillance act,
- foreign intelligence surveillance court,
- inter-services intelligence,
- marine corps intelligence activity,
- military intelligence section 5,
- military intelligence section 6,
- security intelligence review committee,
- united states intelligence agency,
- united states intelligence community,
- air force intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance,
- directorate for inter-services intelligence,
- national geospatial-intelligence agency