Definitions for known

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Spelling: [nohn]

IPA: /noʊn/

Known is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in known (knnow).

Definitions for known

noun

1. a known quantity.
2. the fact or state of knowing; knowledge.

verb

1. past participle of know1 .

Idioms

1. in the know, possessing inside, secret, or special information.
2. know the ropes, Informal. to understand or be familiar with the particulars of a subject or business:

verb (used with object)

1. to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty:
2. to have established or fixed in the mind or memory:
3. to be cognizant or aware of:
4. be acquainted with (a thing, place, person, etc.), as by sight, experience, or report:
5. to understand from experience or attainment (usually followed by how before an infinitive):
6. to be able to distinguish, as one from another:
7. Archaic. to have sexual intercourse with.

verb (used without object)

1. to have knowledge or clear and certain perception, as of fact or truth.
2. to be cognizant or aware, as of some fact, circumstance, or occurrence; have information, as about something.

Origin of known

before 900; Middle English knowen, knawen, Old English gecnāwan; cognate with Old High German -cnāhan, Old Norse knā to know how, be able to; akin to Latin (g)nōvī, Greek gignṓskein. See

Examples for known

There's a broker I've known down-town—fellow by the name of Relpin.

Asia Bibi, as she is known, was arrested and sentenced to death.

He hits bottom at Rocamadour, a sanctuary in the Dordogne known as a citadel of faith devoted to Mary.

But I've known every bad place in it, and I've religiously put in your "Come, come, child!"

Soon as I looked at her it seemed to me I'd known her always.

By some mysterious power you have ever known my heart better than I myself have known it.

This house on Parsioneros, after all, was only one of many such narco-tombs in Juarez, known as narcofosas.

Each CAP, also known as an “orbit,” consists on four aircraft.

If he had known it, it was with the Dance of Death on the bridge of Lucerne.

What is known is that Peña Nieto bungled his response to the crisis.