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well-known

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Etymology

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From Middle English well knowen. By surface analysis, well +‎ known.

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well-known (comparative better-known or more well-known, superlative best-known or most well-known)

  1. Familiar, famous, renowned, noted or widely known.
    Synonym: noted
    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.
    • 2017 June 9, Susan Scutti, “Study links mosquito spray to delayed motor skills in babies”, in CNN‎[1], archived from the original on 6 October 2022:
      At 6 weeks and 9 months, the babies’ motor skills were tested using the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, a well-known assessment tool that looks at gross, fine and total motor abilities.
    • 2024 November 27, Ben Jones, “Testing trains, tracks and systems”, in RAIL, number 1023, page 33:
      Less well-known is NR's High Marnham test track, which occupies part of the former Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway (LDECR) Chesterfield-Lincoln line in Nottinghamshire.
  2. (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.

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