KNOW AS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does know as mean? 

• KNOW AS (verb)
  The verb KNOW AS has 2 senses:

1. assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

2. look on as or consider

  Familiarity information: KNOW AS used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNOW AS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

be known as; call; know as; name

Context example:

The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader

Hypernyms (to "know as" is one way to...):

label (assign a label to; designate with a label)

Verb group:

call (ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality)

address; call (greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "know as"):

baptise; baptize; christen (administer baptism to)

refer (use a name to designate)

style; title (designate by an identifying term)

dub; nickname (give a nickname to)

rename (assign a new name to)

entitle; title (give a title to)

term (name formally or designate with a term)

tag (provide with a name or nickname)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Look on as or consider

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

be known as; esteem; know as; look on; look upon; regard as; repute; take to be; think of

Context example:

He is reputed to be intelligent

Hypernyms (to "know as" is one way to...):

believe; conceive; consider; think (judge or regard; look upon; judge)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

If you have HIV/AIDS and find out you are pregnant or think you may be pregnant, you should let your health care provider know as soon as possible.

(HIV/AIDS and Pregnancy, NIH)

"Well, sir," he said, with a suspicious sort of modesty, "I think I can; but I don't know as 'ow you'd be satisfied with the theory."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

F. necrophorum subsp. funduliforme, also know as biovar B, is found in the intestinal tract of animals, but is known to cause infections in both animals and humans.

(Fusobacterium necrophorum subspecies funduliforme, NCI Thesaurus)

“He’ll know as soon as ever he claps eyes on us,” Parsons replied.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

F. necrophorum subsp. necrophorum, also know as biovar A, is found in the intestinal tract of animals but is known to cause infections in both animals and humans.

(Fusobacterium necrophorum subspecies necrophorum, NCI Thesaurus)

I think that you know as much as I do now—probably more.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I don't know how long we were going, and to this hour I know as little where we went.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I give you the incident as it occurred and you will know as much as I do.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am no chicken, but I cannot claim to know as much of war as the squire of Sir Walter Manny.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Maize, which we know as corn, was grown in the region as early as 2000 B.C.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)