Usually means: Recognized by many, widely familiar.
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  1. well-known: Merriam-Webster
  2. well-known: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. well-known, well-known: Collins English Dictionary
  4. well-known: Vocabulary.com
  5. Well-Known, Well-known, well-known: Wordnik
  6. well-known: Wiktionary
  7. well-known: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. well-known: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. well-known: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. well-known: Dictionary.com
  11. well-known: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. well-known: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Well-known: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Well-known: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. well-known: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. well-known: Rhymezone
  17. Well-known: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. well-known: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. well-known: FreeDictionary.org
  20. well-known: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. well-known: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. well-known: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Familiar, famous, renowned, noted or widely known.
adjective:  (computing, not comparable) Generally recognized; reserved for some usual purpose.

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