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Definition of Well-Known
Well-known

Fully known; generally known or acknowledged.

Related Definitions:
Acknowledged, Fully, Generally, Known, Or


Well-Known Quotations

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Kahlil Gibran

I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.
Richard Branson

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.
Morgan Freeman

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
Alan Alda

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.
Elton John

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
Maya Lin

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
Bob Woodward

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.
Lawrence Welk

While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.
John Linder

Well-Known Translations

well-known in Afrikaans is bekend
well-known in Dutch is vertrouwd, bekend
well-known in Finnish is tuttu
well-known in German is namhaft
well-known in Spanish is conocido


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