Synonyms of the word

recognise

• v. (transitive) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as worthy of consideration or…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge or consider as something.
• v. (transitive) To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.
• v. (transitive) To give an award.

accept

• v. (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
• v. (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
• v. (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
• v. (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
• v. (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
• v. (transitive) To endure patiently.
• v. (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
• v. (transitive) To receive officially.
• v. (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
• adj. (obsolete) Accepted.

accost

• v. (transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To approach; to come up to.
• v. (transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
• v. To solicit sexually.
• v. (transitive) To assault (the most common modern usage).
• n. (rare) Address; greeting.
• n. An attack.

accredit

• v. (transitive) To ascribe; attribute; credit with.
• v. (transitive) To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
• v. (transitive) To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize,…
• v. (transitive) To believe; to put trust in.
• v. (transitive) To enter on the credit side of an account book.
• v. (transitive) To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as…
• v. (transitive) To recognize as outstanding.
• v. (transitive, literally) To credit.

acknowledge

• v. (transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.
• v. To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority…
• v. To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or an favour).
• v. To notify receipt, as of a letter.
• v. To own as genuine or valid; to assent to (a legal instrument) to give it validity; to avow or admit in…

address

• n. Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
• n. Act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech.
• n. Manner of speaking to another; delivery.
• n. Attention in the way one addresses a lady.
• n. Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
• n. (obsolete) Act of preparing oneself.
• n. A description of the location of a property.
• n. (by extension) The property itself.
• n. (computing) A location in computer memory.
• n. (Internet) An Internet address; URL.
• n. An email address.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or make ready.
• v. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
• v. (reflexive) To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To clothe or array; to dress.
• v. (transitive) To direct, as words, to (anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. to (any…
• v. (transitive) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by…
• v. (transitive) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
• v. (transitive) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
• v. (transitive) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
• v. (transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech…
• v. (transitive, formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To refer a location in computer memory.
• v. (golf, transitive) To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).

agnise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of agnize.

agnize

• v. (transitive, archaic) To recognise; to acknowledge.

appreciate

• v. (transitive) To be grateful or thankful for.
• v. (transitive) To view as valuable.
• v. (transitive) To be fully conscious of; understand; be aware of; detect.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) to increase in value.

certify

• v. (transitive) to attest to as the truth or meeting a standard.

cognise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of cognize.

cognize

• v. To know or be aware of.
• v. To select a pattern of information and assign it as an entity.

discern

• v. (transitive) To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
• v. (transitive) To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
• v. (transitive) To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate.
• v. (intransitive) To perceive differences.

distinguish

• v. To see someone or something as different from others.
• v. To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
• v. To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make to differ.

greet

• v. (transitive) To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means e.g. writing or…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at or reach, or meet (talking of something which brings joy).
• v. (transitive) To accost; to address.
• v. (intransitive) To meet and give salutations.
• v. (transitive) To be perceived by (somebody).
• adj. (obsolete outside Scotland) Great.
• v. (Scotland, Northern England) To weep; to cry.
• n. (obsolete) Mourning, weeping, lamentation.

know

• v. (transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
• v. (transitive) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
• v. (transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
• v. (transitive) To experience.
• v. (transitive) To distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature…
• v. (transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence…
• v. To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
• v. (transitive, archaic, biblical) To have sexual relations with.
• v. (intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become aware or cognizant.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be acquainted (with another person).
• v. (transitive) To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
• n. (rare) Knowledge; the state of knowing.

licence

• n. (Britain, Canada, Australia, South Africa) standard spelling of license.
• v. (Britain, Canada, South Africa, nonstandard) Alternative form of license.

license

• n. A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
• n. The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
• n. Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or…
• n. Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
• v. The act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization.
• v. Authorize officially.

prize

• n. That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior…
• n. (military, nautical) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property…
• n. An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an…
• n. That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
• n. Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
• n. A contest for a reward; competition.
• n. A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever. Also spelled prise.
• v. To consider highly valuable; to esteem.
• v. (obsolete) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
• v. To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.
• v. (obsolete) To compete in a prizefight.
• adj. Having won a prize; award-winning.
• adj. first-rate; exceptional.

realise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of realize.

realize

• v. (formal, transitive) To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring…
• v. (transitive) To become aware of a fact or situation.
• v. (transitive) To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to…
• v. (transitive, business) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts;…
• v. (transitive, business, finance) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing…
• v. (transitive, business, obsolete) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.

recall

• v. (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
• v. (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
• v. (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
• v. (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time.
• v. (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
• n. The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
• n. Memory; the ability to remember.
• n. (information retrieval) the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.

recognize

• v. (transitive) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge or consider as something.
• v. (transitive) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realize or admit that.
• v. (transitive) To give an award.
• v. To show appreciation of.
• v. (obsolete) To review; to examine again.
• v. (obsolete) To reconnoiter.
• v. (immunology) To have the property to bind to specific antigens.
• v. To cognize again.

recollect

• v. To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
• v. To compose oneself.

remember

• v. To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
• v. To memorize; to put something into memory.
• v. To keep in mind, be mindful of.
• v. To not forget (to do something required).
• v. To convey greetings from.
• v. (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively).
• v. (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.

retrieve

• v. (transitive) To regain or get back something.
• v. (transitive) To rescue (a) creature(s).
• v. (transitive) To salvage something.
• v. (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
• v. (transitive) To remember or recall something.
• v. (transitive) To fetch or carry back something.
• v. (transitive) To fetch and bring in game.
• v. (intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.
• v. (intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
• v. (sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
• v. (obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
• n. A retrieval.
• n. (sports) The return of a difficult ball.
• n. (obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery.
• n. (obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.

thank

• n. (obsolete) An expression of appreciation; a thought.
• v. (transitive) To express gratitude or appreciation toward.
• v. (transitive) To feel gratitude or appreciation toward.
• v. (transitive) To credit or hold responsible.

think

• v. (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.
• v. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
• v. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
• v. (transitive) To be of the opinion (that).
• v. (transitive) To guess; to reckon.
• v. (transitive) To consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
• v. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
• v. To presume; to venture.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
• v. (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.

treasure

• n. (uncountable) A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
• n. (countable) Anything greatly valued.
• n. (countable) A term of endearment.
• v. (transitive, of a person or thing) To consider to be precious.
• v. (transitive) To store or stow in a safe place.

value

• n. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
• n. (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
• n. That which is valued or highly esteemed, as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
• n. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
• n. (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
• n. (art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
• n. Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
• n. Precise meaning; import.
• n. (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically,…
• n. (obsolete) Esteem; regard.
• n. (obsolete) valour; also spelled valew.
• v. To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
• v. To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
• v. To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
• v. To hold dear.