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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Intelligence \In*tel"li*gence\, n. [F. intelligence, L. intelligentia, intellegentia See {Intelligent}.] 1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding. 2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. --Spenser. 3. Information communicated; news notice; advice. Intelligence is given where you are hid. --Shak. 4. Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. [Obs.] He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites. --Clarendon. 5. Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information. I write as he that none intelligence Of meters hath, ne flowers of sentence. --Court of Love. 6. An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as a created intelligence. --Milton. The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there --Tennyson. {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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: intelligence n 1: the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience [ant: {stupidity}] 2: a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting intelligence 3: secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy); "we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage" 4: new information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome" [syn: {news}, {tidings}, {word}] 5: the operation of gathering information about an enemy [syn: {intelligence activity}, {intelligence operation}]
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