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n. - A person who apprehends.

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Usage examples (38)
  • Up. II, 4, 15); and Smriti also, 'Him who knows this they call the knower of the body' (Bha.
  • The individual was in no true sense the knower; the knower was the "Reason" which operated through him.
  • 'knower' -- which occurs in the concluding passage, 'How should he know the knower?'
  • I guess you could say that I'm a "knower" and they're all "doers."
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