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Meaning & Definition of Intelligence in English

English

Intelligence

/ɪntɛləʤəns/

noun

1. The ability to comprehend

  • To understand and profit from experience
synonym:
  • intelligence

2. A unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy

synonym:
  • intelligence,
  • intelligence service,
  • intelligence agency

3. Secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy)

  • "We sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage"
synonym:
  • intelligence,
  • intelligence information

4. Information about recent and important events

  • "They awaited news of the outcome"
synonym:
  • news,
  • intelligence,
  • tidings,
  • word

5. The operation of gathering information about an enemy

synonym:
  • intelligence,
  • intelligence activity,
  • intelligence operation

Examples of using

Maybe Pinocchio's wooden head with its inbuilt high tech microchip has more intelligence than the rest of the world.
You don't need much intelligence to understand that.
On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death "by the visitation of God." What could the world do without juries?