well-known

Speech parts

1. well-known - Adjective

2. well-known - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Fully known; generally known or acknowledged.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

well known

Synonyms

popular noted famous recognized notable prominent distinguished celebrated familiar acknowledged respected renowned legendary notorious famed
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Antonyms

midland peregrine mezzo unbeknown inside novel
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Examples

But it is a well-known maxim of war that whoever tries to hold on to everything at once, finishes up by holding nothing at all. Erich von Manstein

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. Steve Martin

[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals. Anatol Rapoport

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them. Bob Woodward

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. H. L. Mencken

It's a well-known fact, dirt stinks more when stirred. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

well-kept well-kept-up well-knit well-known defender well-known fact well-known information