Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Widely known; familiar or famous.
- adjective Fully known.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fully or familiarly known; clearly apprehended; generally acknowledged.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Fully known; generally known or acknowledged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Familiar ,famous ,renowned orwidely known . - adjective computing, not comparable Generally recognised; reserved for some usual purpose.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective frequently experienced; known closely or intimately
- adjective widely or fully known
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Examples
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As Blowfly, Reid primarily parodied if that's the word well-known pop singles by rewriting their lyrics along hypersexual and scatological lines.
The Seattle Times 2011
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On each occasion, he has offered us nothing beyond Alinsky's name, as though he were referring to as well-known a person as, for example, Steven Spielberg or Paula Abdul.
Frank Mankiewicz: America, Meet Saul Alinsky, the Great Man Newt Gingrich Wants You to Hate Frank Mankiewicz 2012
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In a Los Angeles courtroom, two big industries are going after each other over the definition of a word well-known by every first-grader: sugar.
'Corn Sugar' Goes On Trial As Suit Debates High-Fructose Corn Syrup Ashby Jones 2011
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On each occasion, he has offered us nothing beyond Alinsky's name, as though he were referring to as well-known a person as, for example, Steven Spielberg or Paula Abdul.
Frank Mankiewicz: America, Meet Saul Alinsky, the Great Man Newt Gingrich Wants You to Hate Frank Mankiewicz 2012
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They would talk to each other on the set in some kind of comedy shorthand, calling out play numbers to each other, as if they were referring to a well-known joke catalog.
With Love and Laughter, John Ritter Amy Yasbeck 2010
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Related to this word, etymologically, is a word more well-known in the West: karma—meaning “inevitable cause and effect.”
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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Related to this word, etymologically, is a word more well-known in the West: karma—meaning “inevitable cause and effect.”
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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Related to this word, etymologically, is a word more well-known in the West: karma—meaning “inevitable cause and effect.”
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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The term is well-known to conservatives as the one used by then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas when Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment during his 1991 Senate confirmation hearings.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed KONRAD YAKABUSKI 2011
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It's also been called a zoo, a 'ghetto mansion' and, most often, simply First United, a name as well-known to city police and emergency room doctors as to the hundreds of people who troop through its doors.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed WENDY STUECK 2011
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