Well-known

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Well-known \Well"-known`\, a.
     Fully known; generally known or acknowledged.
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           A church well known with a well-known rite. --M.
                                                    Arnold.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  well-known
       adj 1: widely or fully known; "a well-known politician";
              "well-known facts"; "a politician who is well known";
              "these facts are well known"
       2: frequently experienced; known closely or intimately; "a
          long-familiar face"; "a well-known voice reached her ears"
          [syn: {long-familiar}, {well-known(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "well-known":
     acclaimed, back-number, banal, bewhiskered, bromidic, celebrated,
     common, commonly known, commonplace, conspicuous, corny, current,
     cut-and-dried, distinguished, fabled, fade, famed, familiar,
     famous, far-famed, far-heard, fusty, hackney, hackneyed, honored,
     household, important, leading, legendary, marked, moth-eaten,
     much acclaimed, musty, mythical, notable, noted, notorious,
     of mark, of note, old hat, outstanding, platitudinous, popular,
     prominent, proverbial, public, renowned, set, square, stale,
     stereotyped, stock, talked-about, talked-of, threadbare, timeworn,
     trite, truistic, universally admitted, universally recognized,
     unoriginal, warmed-over, well-kenned, well-recognized,
     well-understood, well-worn, widely known, worn, worn thin