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Definitions for Known

[1] past participle of know1.
[2] a known quantity.
[3] to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
[4] to have established or fixed in the mind or memory: to know a poem by heart; Do you know the way to the park from here?
[5] to be cognizant or aware of: I know it.
[6] be acquainted with (a thing, place, person, etc.), as by sight, experience, or report: to know the mayor.
[7] to understand from experience or attainment (usually followed by how before an infinitive): to know how to make gingerbread.
[8] to be able to distinguish, as one from another: to know right from wrong.
[9] Archaic . to have sexual intercourse with.
[10] to have knowledge or clear and certain perception, as of fact or truth.
[11] to be cognizant or aware, as of some fact, circumstance, or occurrence; have information, as about something.
[12] the fact or state of knowing; knowledge.
[13] the past participle of know
[14] specified and identified a known criminal
[15] a fact or entity known
[16] (also intr; may take a clause as object) to be or feel certain of the truth or accuracy of (a fact, etc)
[17] to be acquainted or familiar with she's known him five years
[18] to have a familiarity or grasp of, as through study or experience he knows French
[19] (also intr; may take a clause as object) to understand, be aware of, or perceive (facts, etc) he knows the answer now
[20] (foll by how) to be sure or aware of (how to be or do something)
[21] to experience, esp deeply to know poverty
[22] to be intelligent, informed, or sensible enough (to do something) she knew not to go home yet
[23] (may take a clause as object) to be able to distinguish or discriminate
[24] archaic to have sexual intercourse with
[25] I know what I have an idea
[26] know what's what to know how one thing or things in general work
[27] you know informal a parenthetical filler phrase used to make a pause in speaking or add slight emphasis to a statement
[28] you never know things are uncertain
[29] in the know informal aware or informed

Words related to Known

established, familiar, acknowledged, recognized, well-known, obvious, common, notorious, accepted, noted, admitted, received, patent, plain, celebrated, manifest, avowed, published, confessed, certified

Words nearby Known

knowledge is power, knowledge worker, knowledge-based system, knowledgeable, knowles, known, known quantity, knowsley, knox, knox-johnston, knoxville

Origin of Known

1before 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 gnostic, can1

Other words from Known

know·er , noun

Word origin for Known

Old English gecnāwan; related to Old Norse knā I can, Latin noscere to come to know

Synonyms for Known

accepted, acknowledged, admitted, common, established, familiar, noted, notorious, obvious, recognized, well-known, avowed, celebrated, certified, confessed, manifest, patent, plain, published, received, conscious, down pat, hackneyed, proverbial