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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Unknown \Un*known"\, a. Not known not apprehended. -- {Un*known"ness}, n. [R.] --Camden. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: unknown adj 1: not known "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an unknown writer"; "an unknown source" [ant: {known}] 2: being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by an unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless owners"; "an unnamed donor" [syn: {nameless}, {unidentified}, {unnamed}] 3: not known to exist; "things obscurely felt surged up from unsuspected depths in her"- Edith Wharton 4: not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes of the war" [syn: {obscure}, {unsung}] 5: not known before "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house" [syn: {strange}] n 1: an unknown and unexplored region; "they came like angels out the unknown" [syn: {unknown region}, {terra incognita}] 2: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found [syn: {stranger}, {alien}] 3: a variable whose values are solutions of an equation [syn: {unknown quantity}]
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