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Known

adjective
1.
Apprehended with certainty.  "The limits of the known world" , "A musician known throughout the world" , "A known criminal"



Know

verb
(past knew; past part. known; pres. part. knowing)
1.
Be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about.  Synonyms: cognise, cognize.  "I want to know who is winning the game!" , "I know it's time"
2.
Know how to do or perform something.  "Does your husband know how to cook?"
3.
Be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt.  "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun"
4.
Be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object.  "Do you know my sister?" , "We know this movie" , "I know him under a different name" , "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily"
5.
Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.  Synonyms: experience, live.  "Have you ever known hunger?" , "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict" , "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare" , "I lived through two divorces"
6.
Accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority.  Synonyms: acknowledge, recognise, recognize.  "We do not recognize your gods"
7.
Have fixed in the mind.  "This student knows her irregular verbs" , "Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?"
8.
Have sexual intercourse with.  Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with.  "Adam knew Eve" , "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
9.
Know the nature or character of.
10.
Be able to distinguish, recognize as being different.
11.
Perceive as familiar.



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"Known" Quotes from Famous Books



... Train Celastrus scandens, better known as Bittersweet, where its pendant clusters of red and orange can show against evergreens, and you produce an effect that can be equalled ...
— Amateur Gardencraft - A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover • Eben E. Rexford

... silent plumes of Time!— No pulse—no heart—no feeling hers! She lends the warning voice to Fate; And still companions, while she stirs, The changes of the Human State! So may she teach us, as her tone But now so mighty, melts away— That earth no life which earth has known From ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXIX. - March, 1843, Vol. LIII. • Various

... good for a sinful human being. They had a house to themselves, with large high rooms, and every day she received visits from the richest women of the town, and visited them in return. There was never a betrothal, marriage, or christening in a well-known family to which she was not invited; every child in the street knew her and smiled at her; and the suppers in her hospitable house were renowned as ...
— The Malady of the Century • Max Nordau

... soul was changed in him. Men gazed and their hearts sank in them, and they knew not why it was, Why the fair-lit hall was darkling, nor what had come to pass: For they saw the sorrow of Sigurd, who had seen but his deeds erewhile, And the face of the mighty darkened, who had known but the light ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris

... after you disappeared, and much is forgotten in ten years," was the answer. "All the same, I don't suppose he would have come back if Olivarez—the last president and a Yellow—had not made it known that he would bestow commissions on Spanish officers of distinction and give them commands in the national army. It was a most absurd proceeding. But we shot Olivarez three months ago, and I will see that these Spanish interlopers are sent out of the country ...
— Mr. Fortescue • William Westall


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