known Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
    know; cognize; cognise.
    • I know that the President lied to the people
    • I want to know who is winning the game!
    • I know it's time
  2. verb know how to do or perform something
    know.
    • She knows how to knit
    • Does your husband know how to cook?
  3. verb be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt
    know.
    • I know that I left the key on the table
    • Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun
  4. verb be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object
    know.
    • She doesn't know this composer
    • Do you know my sister?
    • We know this movie
    • I know him under a different name
    • This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily
  5. verb have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
    live; know; experience.
    • I know the feeling!
    • have you ever known hunger?
    • I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict
    • The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare
    • I lived through two divorces
  6. verb accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority
    recognize; know; recognise; acknowledge.
    • The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne
    • We do not recognize your gods
  7. verb have fixed in the mind
    know.
    • I know Latin
    • This student knows her irregular verbs
    • Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?
  8. verb have sexual intercourse with
    love; fuck; sleep with; have it away; screw; have intercourse; get it on; lie with; hump; make love; make out; get laid; have a go at it; bonk; eff; have sex; jazz; be intimate; know; have it off; bang; bed; do it; roll in the hay; sleep together.
    • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
    • Adam knew Eve
    • Were you ever intimate with this man?
  9. verb know the nature or character of
    know.
    • we all knew her as a big show-off
  10. verb be able to distinguish, recognize as being different
    know.
    • The child knows right from wrong
  11. verb perceive as familiar
    know.
    • I know this voice!
  12. adjective apprehended with certainty
    • a known quantity
    • the limits of the known world
    • a musician known throughout the world
    • a known criminal

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  1. of Know.

Webster 1913