well known

English

Adjective

well known (comparative better known, superlative best known)

  1. (predicative) Alternative form of well-known.
    As is well known, heavy drinking is dangerous.
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 178, about Eynsford:
      The village was once well known for its paper-milling, founded by Huguenot immigrants in 1648, which produced high-quality hand-made paper until 1952.
    • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
      If you feel I have short-changed Brunel by not detailing all his accomplishments, it's only because he's so well known to us rail aficionados.

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