What does unknown mean?

Definitions for unknown
ʌnˈnoʊnun·known

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unknown, unknown region, terra incognitanoun

    an unknown and unexplored region

    "they came like angels out the unknown"

  2. stranger, alien, unknownnoun

    anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

  3. unknown, unknown quantityadjective

    a variable whose values are solutions of an equation

  4. unknownadjective

    not known

    "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an unknown writer"; "an unknown source"

  5. nameless, unidentified, unknown, unnamedadjective

    being or having an unknown or unnamed source

    "a poem by an unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless owners"; "an unnamed donor"

  6. unknownadjective

    not known to exist

    "things obscurely felt surged up from unknown depths"

  7. obscure, unknown, unsungadjective

    not famous or acclaimed

    "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes of the war"

  8. strange, unknownadjective

    not known before

    "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house"

Wiktionary

  1. unknownnoun

    A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.

  2. unknownnoun

    Any fact or place about which nothing is known (as in the phrase "into the unknown").

  3. unknownnoun

    A person of no identity; a nonentity

  4. unknownadjective

    Not known; unidentified; not well known.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Unknownadjective

    ’Tis not unknown to you,
    How much I have disabled my estate. William Shakespeare.

    Many are the trees of God, that grow
    In paradise, and various, yet unknown
    To us. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

    Here may I always on this downy grass,
    Unknown, unseen, my easy minutes pass. Wentworth Dillon.

    If any chance has hither brought the name
    Of Palamedes, not unknown to fame,
    Accus’d and sentenc’d for pretended crimes. Dryden.

    Though incest is indeed a deadly crime,
    You are not guilty, since unknown ’twas done,
    And known, had been abhorr’d. John Dryden, Don Sebastian.

    At fear of death, that saddens all
    With terrors round, can reason hold her throne?
    Despise the known, nor tremble at th’ unknown. Alexander Pope.

    The planting of hemp and flax would be an unknown advantage to the kingdom. Francis Bacon.

    I am yet
    Unknown to woman; never was forsworn. William Shakespeare.

    We stopped at a little inn, where the man of the house, formerly a servant in the knight’s family, to do honour to his old master, had, unknown to Sir Roger, put him up in a sign-post. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 122.

ChatGPT

  1. unknown

    Unknown refers to something that is not known, not discovered, not identified, or not understood. It often applies to information, facts, variables, or situations that are yet to be determined or revealed.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Unknownadjective

    not known; not apprehended

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. unknown

    1. A code meaning

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  1. Unknown

    The man who painted thousands of pictures in art galleries.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'unknown' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2303

  2. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'unknown' in Adjectives Frequency: #315

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unknown in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unknown in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of unknown in a Sentence

  1. Jim Small:

    He’s got an uphill climb to be competitive in this race, just to put it bluntly, he’s an unknown running as a Republican in that district.

  2. Afghanistan Sara Bahai:

    I receive threats from unknown callers who tell me to not drive in the city because I am a woman, because it is against Islam. Some tell me that if I continue to work as a taxi driver they will kill me, male passengers are very jealous and often abuse me, but I don't care what they think of me, I am not afraid. I will change the country with whatever ability I have to do so.

  3. Brian Austin:

    It sucks when life changes and something that youre used to, that youve been doing for 15 years, you try and not get rid of but you change because theres the unknown aspect. ... Theres that pit in my stomach, i really dont want Megan Fox and I to be at odds. ... Shes been my best friend for 15 years and I dont want to lose that.

  4. Kevin Headland:

    It's going to be harder to drive growth year after year. The big unknown is how they're going to continue to grow, if expectations remain elevated, they're eventually are going to have some missteps.

  5. Diane Rwigara:

    There are many cases in this country in which people are just kidnapped off the street by men dressed in civilian clothes, blindfolded, put in a tinted-windows vehicle, and driven off to unknown places, those victims either completely disappear, or are later found dead somewhere.

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