well-known
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English well knowen.
Pronunciation Adjectivewell-known (comparative better-known, superlative best-known)
- Familiar, famous, renowned or widely known.
- Antonyms: little-known
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:
- Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
- (computing, not comparable) Generally recognized; reserved for some usual purpose.
- 1972, Vint Cerf, Jon Postel, RFC 322 - Well known socket numbers:
- We would like to catalog other sockets which are supposed to be well-known
- 2003, John Mueller, .NET development security solutions:
- If the call to this function fails, you can assume the SID was invalid — even if it's a well-known SID.
- 2007, Larry L Peterson, Bruce S Davie, Computer networks: a systems approach:
- A common approach is for the server to accept messages at a well-known port.
- French: bien connu
- German: wohlbekannt, wohl bekannt, berühmt
- Italian: famoso, rinomato, noto, celebre, popolare
- Russian: знамени́тый
- Spanish: consabido, de marras, famoso
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