known

[ nohn ]

/ noʊn /

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verb

past participle of know¹.

noun

a known quantity.

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How to use known in a sentence

Twenty percent of all known plants and lichens in the entire state of Illinois can be found in this small pocket of the Shawnee.
A day’s drive from Chicago, exploring a very different Illinois|Carson Vaughan|February 12, 2021|Washington Post
As with any online purchase, buy from reputable sources and widely known sites.
Replacing pieces of flatware or china can be a challenge. Here’s how to track them down.|Laura Daily|February 11, 2021|Washington Post
Fokidis said people in areas with known cases of salmonellosis should take down their feeders, especially if they have seen sick or dead birds, until the outbreak has cleared up.
Your dirty bird feeder could be spreading disease|Melissa Hart|February 9, 2021|Washington Post
Once it was established the dogs knew the names of all their toys, the researchers introduced two new objects, placing each in turn in a group of known toys.
Is your dog actually smart? Depends on its memory.|By Jan Hoole/The Conversation|February 8, 2021|Popular-Science

In the meantime, researchers are grappling with understanding the threat the known mutations pose.
How coronavirus variants may drive reinfection and shape vaccination efforts|Erin Garcia de Jesus|February 5, 2021|Science News
Asia Bibi, as she is known, was arrested and sentenced to death.
In Defense of Blasphemy|Michael Tomasky|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday.
France Kills Charlie Hebdo Murderers|Nico Hines|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He hits bottom at Rocamadour, a sanctuary in the Dordogne known as a citadel of faith devoted to Mary.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President|Pierre Assouline|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
What is known is that Peña Nieto bungled his response to the crisis.
Why Mexicans Are Enraged by Obama’s Big Tuesday Meeting|Ruben Navarrette Jr.|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
This house on Parsioneros, after all, was only one of many such narco-tombs in Juarez, known as narcofosas.
An Informant, a Missing American, and Juarez’s House of Death: Inside the 12-Year Cold Case of David Castro|Bill Conroy|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Sometimes in the case of large plants, cones have been known to occur on the tips of the branches of the Marsh Horsetail.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
Her eldest daughter married in America, and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.
Children's Ways|James Sully
But men we had known and trails we had followed furnished us plenty of grist for the conversational mill.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for known

known

/ (nəʊn) /

verb

the past participle of know

adjective

specified and identifieda known criminal

noun

a fact or entity known

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