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Unknown   /ənnˈoʊn/   Listen
Unknown

adjective
1.
Not known.  "An unknown island" , "An unknown writer" , "An unknown source"
2.
Being or having an unknown or unnamed source.  Synonyms: nameless, unidentified, unnamed.  "Corporations responsible to nameless owners" , "An unnamed donor"
3.
Not known to exist.
4.
Not famous or acclaimed.  Synonyms: obscure, unsung.  "Unsung heroes of the war"
5.
Not known before.  Synonym: strange.  "Saw many strange faces in the crowd" , "Don't let anyone unknown into the house"
noun
1.
An unknown and unexplored region.  Synonyms: terra incognita, unknown region.
2.
Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found.  Synonyms: alien, stranger.
3.
A variable whose values are solutions of an equation.  Synonym: unknown quantity.



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"Unknown" Quotes from Famous Books



... campaign went famously. Bleak had one considerable advantage in being comparatively unknown. He had never permitted himself the luxury of making enemies: except for a few ex-reporters who had once worked on the Balloon he had not a foe in the world. Quimbleton had been eager to import a covey of gunmen from other cities, but when these arrived there ...
— In the Sweet Dry and Dry • Christopher Morley
... imagination poor Tess and her parents were naturally in ignorance—much to their discomfiture; indeed, the very possibility of such annexations was unknown to them; who supposed that, though to be well-favoured might be the gift of fortune, a family ...
— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy
... man who loved an' served a wumman wi' his best an' at a great cost, an' yet for whom there cud be no reward but his ain luve." Marget's face grew so beautiful as she told of the constancy of this unknown, unrewarded lover that Carmichael left without further speech, but with a purer vision of love than had ever before visited his soul. Marget watched him go down the same path by which Kate went, and she said to herself, "Whether or no he ...
— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren
... motion of the glacier itself, as well as the inequality of its motion in different parts, but explained also a variety of phenomena indirectly connected with it. Among these were the position and direction of the crevasses, those gaping fissures of unknown depths, sometimes a mile or more in length, and often measuring several hundred feet in width, the terror, not only of the ordinary traveller, but of the most experienced mountaineers. There is a variety of such crevasses upon the glacier, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various
... unsatisfied yearning for motherhood, as that she wanted to hold her own with the other charwomen who were represented in the trenches. So she assumed the relationship of an anonymous marraine towards a certain unknown namesake in the Black Watch, and made boastful pretence of having received ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 18, 1917 • Various


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