Hypertext Webster Gateway: "unknown"
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) 1.7 (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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