Unknown

//ʌnˈnoʊn// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not known; unidentified; not well known. postpositional, sometimes

    "The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    being or having an unknown or unnamed source wordnet
  2. 2
    not known before wordnet
  3. 3
    not famous or acclaimed wordnet
  4. 4
    not known wordnet
  5. 5
    not known to exist wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.
  2. 2
    a variable whose values are solutions of an equation wordnet
  3. 3
    Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information.

    "Had God walked close beside her into the unknown?"

  4. 4
    an unknown and unexplored region wordnet
  5. 5
    A person of no identity; a nonentity.

    "How does it feel, / how does it feel? / To be on your own, / with no direction home / A complete unknown, / like a rolling stone"

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  1. 6
    anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    past participle of unknow form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English *unknowen, *uniknowen, uniknowe, from Old English unġecnāwen (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + known.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *unknowen, *uniknowen, uniknowe, from Old English unġecnāwen (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + known.

Etymology 3

From Middle English *unknowen, *uniknowen, uniknowe, from Old English unġecnāwen (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + known.

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