/nəʊn/, /nɑːn/, /noʊn/
OriginFrom Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwen (past participle).
Morphologically know + -n.
- Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned.
“He was a known pickpocket.”
“Being not knowne, some great persons in the pew I pretended to, and went in, did question my coming in.”
- Accepted, familiar, researched.
“At the time, Einstein's theory was unknown to most other scientists.”
“As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reaso”
- Any fact or situation which is known or familiar.
“You have to tell the knowns from the unknowns.”
“The biological dereplication tool may identify major knowns in a mixture, but it may miss novel minor components.”
- A constant or variable the value of which is already determined.
- form-of, participle, pastpast participle of know
Formsbetter known(comparative) · best known(superlative) · knowne(alternative, obsolete) · knowns(plural)