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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: widely or fully known; "a well-known politician"; "well- known facts"; "a politician who is well known"; "these facts are well known"
2: frequently experienced; known closely or intimately; "a long- familiar face"; "a well-known voice reached her ears" [syn: long-familiar, well-known]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century fully or widely known

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Well-known Well"-known`, a. Fully known; generally known or acknowledged. A church well known with a well-known rite. --M. Arnold.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also well known Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A well-known person or thing is known about by a lot of people and is therefore famous or familiar. If someone is well-known for a particular activity, a lot of people know about them because of their involvement with that activity. He surrounds himself with attractive, intelligent, or well-known people... Hubbard was well known for his work in the field of drug rehabilitation. ADJ 2. A well-known fact is a fact that is known by people in general. It is well known that bamboo shoots are a panda's staple diet. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Widely known, fully known, generally known.

Moby Thesaurus

acclaimed, back-number, banal, bewhiskered, bromidic, celebrated, common, commonly known, commonplace, conspicuous, corny, current, cut-and-dried, distinguished, fabled, fade, famed, familiar, famous, far-famed, far-heard, fusty, hackney, hackneyed, honored, household, important, leading, legendary, marked, moth-eaten, much acclaimed, musty, mythical, notable, noted, notorious, of mark, of note, old hat, outstanding, platitudinous, popular, prominent, proverbial, public, renowned, set, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, talked-about, talked-of, threadbare, timeworn, trite, truistic, universally admitted, universally recognized, unoriginal, warmed-over, well-kenned, well-recognized, well-understood, well-worn, widely known, worn, worn thin