Usually means: Acknowledge existence, validity, or legality.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word recognise:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. recognise: Merriam-Webster
  2. recognise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. recognise: Vocabulary.com
  4. Recognise, recognise: Wordnik
  5. recognise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. recognise: Wiktionary
  7. recognise: Dictionary.com
  8. Recognise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. recognise: Rhymezone
  10. recognise: FreeDictionary.org
  11. recognise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. recognise: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recognise: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recognise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recognise: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recognise: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Recognise: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of recognize. [(transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.]

Similar:
recognize, realise, acknowledge, understand, identify, emphasise, realise, utilise, accept, more...

Opposite:
ignore, overlook, disregard, neglect, forget

Phrases:
not recognise, recognise and appreciate, strongly recognise, recognise the possibility of, recognise identity, more...

Adjectives:
first, few, most, last, least, present, day, whole, sad, public, latter

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Similar:
recognize, realise, acknowledge, understand, identify, emphasise, realise, utilise, accept, more...

Opposite:
ignore, overlook, disregard, neglect, forget

Phrases:
not recognise, recognise and appreciate, strongly recognise, recognise the possibility of, recognise identity, to recognise, instinctively recognise, to recognise and appreciate, more...

Adjectives:
first, few, most, last, least, present, day, whole, sad, public, latter

Colors:
    blue,     green,     red,     yellow,     orange, more...



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