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One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.
Ian Fleming

Meaning of "well-known" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WELL-KNOWN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WELL-KNOWN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Well-Known is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES WELL-KNOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of well-known in the English dictionary

The definition of well-known in the dictionary is widely known; famous; celebrated. Other definition of well-known is known fully or clearly.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WELL-KNOWN

well-heeled
well-hidden
well-hung
well-illustrated
well-informed
well-intentioned
well-judged
well-justified
well-kept
well-knit
well-liked
well-lined
well-loved
well-made
well-man
well-man clinic
well-managed
well-mannered
well-marked
well-matched

WORDS THAT END LIKE WELL-KNOWN

beknown
Bridgetown
brown
crown
down
downtown
foreknown
grown
known
lesser-known
little-known
out-of-town
own
renown
shown
takedown
town
unbeknown
unforeknown
unknown

Synonyms and antonyms of well-known in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WELL-KNOWN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «well-known» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of well-known

Translation of «well-known» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WELL-KNOWN

Find out the translation of well-known to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of well-known from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «well-known» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

众所周知的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

conocido
570 millions of speakers

English

well-known
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रसिद्ध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مَشْهُور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

известный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bem-conhecido
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সুপরিচিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fameux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Terkenal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wohlbekannt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

有名な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잘 알려진
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kondhang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nổi tiếng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நன்கு அறியப்பட்ட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुप्रसिद्ध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tanınmış
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

famoso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dobrze znany
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відомий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

binecunoscut
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πασίγνωστος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bekende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

välkänd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

velkjent
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of well-known

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WELL-KNOWN»

The term «well-known» is very widely used and occupies the 6.152 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WELL-KNOWN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «well-known» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «well-known» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about well-known

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10 QUOTES WITH «WELL-KNOWN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word well-known.
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Douglas Adams
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
2
Anthony Albanese
The sporting fields where Australia's greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage.
3
Alan Alda
Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
4
Richard Branson
I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.
5
Mary Cheney
There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.
6
Stephen Colbert
Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
7
David Crystal
The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.
8
Matt Drudge
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
9
Karen Finerman
When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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Ian Fleming
One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WELL-KNOWN»

Discover the use of well-known in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to well-known and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The protection of well-known marks in Asia
The papers collected in this volume are the revised and updated proceedings of a conference on Trade Marks, Domain Names and Unfair Competition in the Information Age, held in Taipei in January 1999, As the result of the co-operation by the ...
Christopher Heath, Kung-Chung Liu, Kongzhong Liu, 2000
2
Travel: The Well-Known Secret: Travel Stories & Life Lessons
Mindi S Johnson-Eluwole was just like everyone else, until one day she sold her house, her car and gave away her worldly belongings to fulfill her life's dream to backpack around the world.
Mindi S. Johnson-Eluwole, 2011
3
Tall Order Cooks: Playful Recipes from the Well Known
"Feeling hungry is an equalizer like the weather, or love and people, whether they are presidents, film directors, CEOs, artists or Masters of the Universe, all eventually develop an appetite and, depending on the circumstances, fix ...
Maria A. Moreira, 2006
4
The way we lived then: recollections of a well-known name ...
The best-selling author of Another City, Not My Own presents an entertaining scrapbook of his career in 1960s Hollywood, combining 150 black-and-white photographs and anecdotes to recapture the people and events that marked the era. 150,000 ...
Dominick Dunne, 1999
5
What is Enlightenment?: Eighteenth-century Answers and ...
This collection contains the first English translations of a group of 18th-century German essays that address the question, "what is Enlightenment?
James Schmidt, 1996
6
A well-known excellence: British artillery and an ...
The author, now 87, fought in all European theaters and took part in the Normandy landings; the book follows his war from enlistment to demobilization and offers very much more than a simple account of life in various battle zones.
Denis Falvey, 2002
7
C Programming Language
As modestly described by the authors in the Preface to the First Edition, this "is not an introductory programming manual; it assumes some familiarity with basic programming concepts like variables, assignment statements, loops, and ...
Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, 1988
8
Food of Some Well-known Birds of Forest, Farm, and Garden
Foster Ellenborough Lascelles Beal, Waldo Lee McAtee. States and probably give a fair idea of the annual food' of the " chippy." In the first analysis the food divides into 38 per cent of animal to 02 per cent of vegetable matter. Specimens from ...
Foster Ellenborough Lascelles Beal, Waldo Lee McAtee, 1902
9
The Faith: The Unknown World of the Well Known Dogma
The exploration of the forbidden, an unveiling of truth from behind a curtain of shadows, sanctity and distorted reality.
Tier, 2007
10
Bridges to heaven: how well-known seekers define and deepen ...
Thirty well-known figures--including Robert Fulgrum, Pat Boone, Scott Peck, and Mother Theresa--reveal their different experiences of connection with a higher power.
Jonathan Robinson, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WELL-KNOWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term well-known is used in the context of the following news items.
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Man accused of killing "well-known" protected lion in Africa
An avid Minnesota hunter accused of illegally killing a protected lion in Zimbabwe said Tuesday that he thought everything about his trip was legal and wasn't ... «10TV, Jul 15»
2
Suicide car bomb rams well known Somali hotel gate, kills at least 4
MOGADISHU, Somalia – A Somali police officer says a suicide car bomber has rammed his car into the protective perimeter outside a well-known hotel in the ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
3
Well-known Torontonian Jeff Lyons dies at 75
Jeff Lyons, who has died at age 75, was among Toronto's most well-known and influential public citizens. Lyons served on countless public, city and charitable ... «Toronto Sun, Jul 15»
4
New rates for well-known Aucklanders and city councillors
With the 2015/16 rates bills going online from today, The Herald has looks at the new annual rates for well-known Aucklanders and city councillors. «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
5
Hillary Clinton: Well-Known Candidate of Unknown Positions
The fact Hillary Clinton is well known is allowing her to keep her policy positions unknown. Thus far her 2016 strategy completely contradicts 2008's — then ... «American Spectator, Jul 15»
6
Well-known downtown restaurant manager dies
William Carvalho, who managed many prominent downtown Des Moines restaurants, died Tuesday. The El Paso, Texas, native managed Proof restaurant for ... «DesMoinesRegister.com, Jul 15»
7
Well-known meteorologist criticizes Pope's stance on climate change
A well-regarded meteorologist and professor has publicly criticized a recent encyclical by Pope Francis which urges immediate actions to protect the Earth and ... «NBC26.tv, Jul 15»
8
Well-known BBC presenter hints Israel may be underdog
Evan Davis, seen here visiting a British weapons firm, shirks his responsibility to ask tough questions of Israeli war criminals. (DHL/Flickr). Israel is a state ... «The Electronic Intifada, Jul 15»
9
Seven Well-Known Pastors Who Are Speaking Out Against Gay …
A flurry of conservative pastors and faith leaders have responded to Friday's same-sex marriage Supreme Court ruling, with many showing their disappointment ... «TheBlaze.com, Jun 15»
10
Irish woman shot dead in Tunisia attack was well-known nurse
The Irish woman shot dead while sunbathing on the beach in the Tunisia terrorist attack worked as a nurse and had fought to save the lives of schoolchildren ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»

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