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well-known

adj
/ˌwɛlˈnoʊn/US/ˌwɛlˈnəʊn/UK

Etymology

From Middle English well knowen. By surface analysis, well + known.

  1. inherited from well knowen

Definitions

  1. Familiar, famous, renowned, noted or widely known.

    • Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
    • At 6 weeks and 9 months, the babies’ motor skills were tested using the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, a well-known assessment tool that looks at gross, fine and total motor abilities.

  2. Generally recognized

    Generally recognized; reserved for some usual purpose.

    • We would like to catalog other sockets which are supposed to be well-known
    • If the call to this function fails, you can assume the SID was invalid — even if it's a well-known SID.
    • A common approach is for the server to accept messages at a well-known port.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at well-known. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01well-known02recognized03distinguished04appearance05coming06come07arrive08fame

A definitional loop anchored at well-known. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at well-known

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA