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say it: in-TEL-uh-juhns
intelligence is a noun meaning "the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience". It carries 5 recorded senses.
the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy
secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy)
“we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage”
the operation of gathering information about an enemy
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for intelligence come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.