unknown
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Etymology[edit]
From un- + known, past participle of know. Compare Old English ungecnawen.
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unknown (comparative more unknown, superlative most unknown)
- (sometimes postpositive) Not known; unidentified; not well known.
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1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
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not known
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Noun[edit]
unknown (plural unknowns)
- (algebra) A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.
- Any fact or place about which nothing is known (as in the phrase "into the unknown").
- A person of no identity; a nonentity
- 1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone
- How does it feel
- To be on your own
- With no direction home
- Like a complete unknown
- Like a rolling stone?
- 1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone
Translations[edit]
variable
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fact or place
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person of no identity
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