well-known
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See also: wellknown
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English well knowen. By surface analysis, well + known.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌwɛlˈnoʊn/
Audio (US): (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌwɛlˈnəʊn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: (General American) -oʊn, (Received Pronunciation) -əʊn
Adjective
well-known (comparative better-known or more well-known, superlative best-known or most well-known)
- Familiar, famous, renowned or widely known.
- Antonym: little-known
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
- 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:
- Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
- (computing, not comparable) Generally recognized; reserved for some usual purpose.
- 1972, Vint Cerf, Jon Postel, RFC 322 - Well known socket numbers:
- We would like to catalog other sockets which are supposed to be well-known
- 2003, John Mueller, .NET development security solutions:
- If the call to this function fails, you can assume the SID was invalid — even if it's a well-known SID.
- 2007, Larry L Peterson, Bruce S Davie, Computer networks: a systems approach:
- A common approach is for the server to accept messages at a well-known port.
Translations
familiar, widely known
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