Intelligence

n.	1.
	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. He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites. - Clarendon.
	5.	(Mil.) 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. The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there. - Tennyson.
	7.	(Mil.) The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy. Intelligence office an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.

Noun	1.	intelligence - the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience Antonyms: stupidity - a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience
	2.	intelligence - a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy Synonyms: intelligence agency, intelligence service
	3.	intelligence - secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy); "we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage" Synonyms: intelligence information
	4.	intelligence - new information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome" Synonyms: news, tidings, word
	5.	intelligence - the operation of gathering information about an enemy Synonyms: intelligence activity, intelligence operation

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