Meaning | apprehended with certainty. |
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Examples | - "a known quantity"
- "the limits of the known world"
- "a musician known throughout the world"
- "a known criminal"
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Narrower | best-known | Most familiar or renowned |
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better-known | More familiar or renowned than the other of two |
celebrated, famed, far-famed, famous, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned | worthy of notice or attention |
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 |
See also | acknowledged | recognized or made known or admitted |
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familiar | well known or easily recognized |
glorious | Having or deserving or conferring glory |
Opposite | unknown | not known |
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Spanish | conocido, sabido |
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Catalan | conegut |
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