WELL KNOWN | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of well known in English well knownadjective uk /ˌwel ˈnəʊn/ us /ˌwel ˈnoʊn/ Add to word list Add to word list A2 known or recognized by many people: Her views on the subject are already well known. [ + that ] It is well known that he never gives interviews. The restaurant is well known for its friendly atmosphere and excellent service. a well-known local artist [ before noun ] a well-known face/voice known and recognized by many people

• famousShe went from poor and anonymous to rich and famous.
• well knownShe's a well-known artist.
• renownedThe area is renowned for its beauty.
• world-famousThey stayed in a world-famous hotel.
• celebratedHe's a celebrated writer of children's stories.
• legendaryHe once met the legendary singer, Eartha Kitt.

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• One of the papers is running a competition in which you've got to parody a well-known author.
• The bomb attack was in retaliation for the recent arrest of two well-known terrorists.
• The Princess Royal is a well-known patron of several charities.
• She is well-known for her profligate spending habits.
• Several well-known women have been troubled by stalkers recently.

Fame and famous

• A-list
• A-lister
• acclaimed
• annal
• anyone
• famous for something
• famously
• fore
• get exposure
• go down in the annals idiom
• legend
• make a splash idiom
• make it big idiom
• marquee
• name
• notoriety
• wilderness years idiom
• world-famous
• world-renowned
• Z-list

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well-known | American Dictionary

well-knownadjective us/ˈwelˈnoʊn/ Add to word list Add to word list known or recognized by many people: The book is by a well-known historian. (Definition of well known from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of well known

well known Although it was well-known that rice is mainly self-pollinating, it was also known that some cross-pollination can take place. From the Cambridge English Corpus The proposed method uses well-known theoretical procedures that are similar to those used in the serial link approach. From the Cambridge English Corpus The results could therefore be due to children's well-known difficulties in learning synonyms. From the Cambridge English Corpus The advantage of this is that solutions to the hypergeometric equation are well-known. From the Cambridge English Corpus The second thesis expresses the well-known meta-ethical view that all moral properties supervene on non-moral properties. From the Cambridge English Corpus These results directly generalize several well-known graph results involving the existence of vertices of degree three. From the Cambridge English Corpus All three protected areas are composed mostly of tropical lowland forest, and are well-known for their diversity of forest birds. From the Cambridge English Corpus Major depression in offspring showed not only the well-known association with maternal depression, but also with paternal depression, which has received little previous study. From the Cambridge English Corpus It is a well-known property of the normal distribution that the first three moments can be expressed in closed form in terms of each other. From the Cambridge English Corpus Section 2 introduces some well-known matching problems and shows how they can be stated in terms of the generic problem of matching graphs. From the Cambridge English Corpus It is possible to encapsulate a broad spectrum of well-known biocides and control their release by the composition and structure of the composite layers. From the Cambridge English Corpus Under certain conditions, the solitary wave suffers the well-known anomalous damping leading to the development of collisionless shock waves. From the Cambridge English Corpus Afterwards, we recall some of the well-known plasma modes, such as ion-, dust- and electron-acoustic solitary waves. From the Cambridge English Corpus The state court had upheld the livestock classification on the grounds that it was well-known that sheep, unlike cattle, damaged pasture land. From the Cambridge English Corpus That book is well-known for its ' ' three pillar ' ' model, entailing a mandatory unfunded pillar, a mandatory funded pillar, and a voluntary private pillar. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of well known These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of well known, well-known?

Translations of well known

in Chinese (Traditional) 著名的，眾所周知的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 著名的，众所周知的… See more in Spanish famoso, conocido/ida [masculine-feminine, singular]… See more in Portuguese conhecido, famoso/-osa, conhecido/-da… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Catalan in Telugu in Arabic in Tamil in Hindi in Bengali in Gujarati in Korean in Urdu in Italian प्रसिद्ध - खूप लोकांना माहीत असलेले… See more よく知られている, 有名（ゆうめい）な, 周知（しゅうち）の… See more famós… See more తెలిసిన లేదా చాలామంది గుర్తించగలిగిన… See more مَعْروف… See more பலரால் அறியப்பட்ட அல்லது அங்கீகரிக்கப்பட்ட… See more मशहूर, प्रसिद्द… See more প্রসিদ্ধ / খ্যাতনামা… See more સુપ્રસિધ્ધ, ખૂબ જાણીતું… See more 유명한… See more جانا پہنچانا, معروف… See more ben noto, conosciuto, famoso… See more Need a translator?

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