Definition of intelligence:

• An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.
• a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy
• the operation of gathering information about an enemy
• secret information about an enemy ( or potential enemy); " we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage"
• The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.
• The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
• Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
• Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
• Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.
• An intelligent being or spirit; - generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.
• The ability to learn and to deal with new situations and to deal effectively with tasks involving abstractions.
• Power of mind; understanding; mind; knowledge gained; notification; news.
• Intellectual skill or knowledge: information communicated: news: a spiritual being.
• Understanding; information.
• Mental power; understanding.
• News.
• Intelligencer.
• Intellectual capacity, skill, or knowledge; information; information communicated; news; an intelligent or spiritual being.
• Intellectual capacity; understanding; news; information; a spiritual being.

Usage examples for intelligence

1. An educated man, with a mind- an intelligence.  Harvest by Mrs. Humphry Ward

2. As a rule we should read only books of recognized excellence, and read them with sympathetic intelligence.  Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by F. V. N. Painter

3. I mean you have intelligence and courage.  The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey

4. But she thought of her father and mother and grandmother, and went on past the intelligence office.  The Portion of Labor by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman