Skill Definition

skĭl

skills

noun

skills

Great ability or proficiency; expertness that comes from training, practice, etc.

Webster's New World

An art, craft, or science, esp. one involving the use of the hands or body.

Webster's New World

Ability in such an art, craft, or science.

Webster's New World

Knowledge, understanding, or judgment.

Webster's New World

A reason; a cause.

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verb

To matter, avail, or make a difference.

Webster's New World

To set apart; separate.

Wiktionary

(chiefly dialectal) To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).

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Wiktionary

(intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.

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adjective

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Other Word Forms of Skill

Singular:

skill

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skills

From Middle English skilen (also schillen), partly from Old English scylian, scielian (“to separate, part, divide off"); and partly from Old Norse skilja (“to divide, separate"); both from Proto-Germanic *skilōnÄ…, *skiljanÄ… (“to divide, limit"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kalǝ-, *(s)kelǝ- (“to split, cut"). Cognate with Danish skille (“to separate, discard"), Swedish skilja (“to distinguish, differentiate, part"), Icelandic skilja (“to understand"), Dutch schelen (“to make a difference").

From Wiktionary
From Middle English skill, skille (also schil, schile), from Old English *scile and Old Norse skil (“a distinction, discernment, knowledge"), from Proto-Germanic *skilin (“separation, limit"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kalǝ-, *(s)kelǝ- (“to split, cut"). Cognate with Danish skel (“a separation, boundary, divide"), Swedish skäl (“reason"), Dutch verschil (“difference") and schillen (“to sperate the outer layer (schil) from the product", verb).

From Wiktionary
Middle English skil from Old Norse discernment skel-¹ in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition