n.
- the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
- a person with this ability.
- the gathering of information of military or political value.
▸information gathered in this way.
- archaic news.
Derivative
- intelligential adj. (archaic).
Etymology
ME: via OFr. from L. intelligentia, from intelligere ‘understand’, var. of intellegere ‘understand’, from inter ‘between’ + legere ‘choose’.