KNOWN
What does "KNOWN" mean?
Recognized, familiar, or established through knowledge or fame.
Meanings
- Generally recognized, familiar, or established as fact. It is a known risk that everyone in the room accepted.
- Famous or widely recognized for something. She is best known for her early documentary films.
- Past participle of know. I have known him since we were children.
Did you know?
- 'Known' shares an ancient root, '*gno-', with 'diagnosis', 'cognition', 'ignore', and even 'noble' - all of them, at bottom, words about knowing.
Word origin
Past participle of 'know', from Old English 'cnawan' (to recognize, perceive), of Germanic origin and ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root '*gno-' meaning to know.
Remember it
KNOWN = KNOW + N; the silent K stays put even after you add the ending.
A little poem
What's known is just the lamp's small ring of light;
the rest is patient, waiting in the night.
couplet
What it teaches
The known is only the edge of a far larger dark; certainty is a small lit room.
Quick facts
What does KNOWN mean?
Recognized, familiar, or established through knowledge or fame.
Is KNOWN a valid word?
Yes — KNOWN is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is KNOWN?
KNOWN has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does KNOWN come from?
Past participle of 'know', from Old English 'cnawan' (to recognize, perceive), of Germanic origin and ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root '*gno-' meaning to know.
What can KNOWN teach us?
The known is only the edge of a far larger dark; certainty is a small lit room.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.