Definition of known
: generally recognized a known authority on art
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WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Walla Walla used to be best known for sweet onions and as home of the state penitentiary, where death row inmates once were hanged.
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Henry, a well known clairvoyant, gives psychic readings to celebrities on his E!
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Walker is best known for her stark paper silhouettes that poetically depict the abuses of slavery.
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Visitors were evacuated as soon as the incident became known and the zoo remained closed Tuesday pending investigations.
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O’Mara, who was in Fort Worth on Friday meeting with the Craig family, is best known for representing George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch leader who was acquitted in 2013 in the shooting death of black teenager Trayvon Martin.
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Rebecca Louise Law is a British installation artist, best known for using materials found in nature — namely flowers — as her medium.
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Before the early 1980s, pharmaceutical companies largely ignored the known universe of about 7,000 orphan diseases.
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His vagrancy, adrift in the chill ruins of a bleak industrial landscape, presents a rootless person without a known identity.
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14th Century
First Known Use of known
14th century
KNOWN Defined for English Language Learners
known
playDefinition of known for English Language Learners
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: generally accepted as something specified
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: included in the knowledge that all people considered as one group have
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: familiar to people
KNOWN Defined for Kids
known
Definition of known for Students
: generally recognized She's a known liar.
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