KNOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does known mean? 

• KNOWN (adjective)
  The adjective KNOWN has 1 sense:

1. apprehended with certainty

  Familiarity information: KNOWN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNOWN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Apprehended with certainty

Context example:

a known criminal

Similar:

best-known (most familiar or renowned)

better-known (more familiar or renowned than the other of two)

celebrated; famed; famous; far-famed; illustrious; notable; noted; renowned (widely known and esteemed)

identified (having the identity known or established)

legendary (so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend)

proverbial (widely known and spoken of)

well-known (widely or fully known)

Also:

acknowledged (recognized or made known or admitted)

familiar (well known or easily recognized)

glorious (having or deserving or conferring glory)

Antonym:

unknown (not known)

 Context examples 

Known to have been employed in an office in Leadenhall Street.

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

He would have marvelled that a whole people—women and children and aged—could travel so swiftly, had he not known the terror that drove them on.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“But if he is so well-known for what he is,” I queried, “how is it that he can get men to ship with him?”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She did not speak, even when she wrote that which she wished to be known later.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Never had I known my friend more moved, and yet the dark street still stretched lonely and motionless before us.

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

He did not think of her flesh as flesh,—which was new to him; for of the women he had known that was the only way he thought.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Oh, yes; I have known him solve questions which presented fewer clues than yours.

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

I've loved you ever since I've known you, Jo, couldn't help it, you've been so good to me.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At first, he had known surprise.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Was it known how it originated?" I demanded.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)