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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
unknown
    adj 1: not known; "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an
           unknown writer"; "an unknown source" [ant: known]
    2: being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by an
       unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless
       owners"; "an unnamed donor" [syn: nameless, unidentified,
       unknown, unnamed]
    3: not known to exist; "things obscurely felt surged up from
       unknown depths"
    4: not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes
       of the war" [syn: obscure, unknown, unsung]
    5: not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many
       strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into
       the house" [syn: strange, unknown]
    n 1: an unknown and unexplored region; "they came like angels
         out the unknown" [syn: unknown, unknown region, terra
         incognita]
    2: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they
       are found [syn: stranger, alien, unknown] [ant:
       acquaintance, friend]
    3: a variable whose values are solutions of an equation [syn:
       unknown, unknown quantity]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Unknown \Un*known"\, a.
   Not known; not apprehended. -- Un*known"ness, n. [R.]
   --Camden.
   [1913 Webster]

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
UNKNOWN. When goods have been stolen from some person unknown, they may be 
so described in the indictment; but if the owner be really known, an 
indictment alleging the property to belong to some person unknown is 
improper. 2 East's P. C. 651 1 Hale, P. C. 512; Holt's N. P. C. 596 S. C. 3 
Eng. Common Law Rep. 191; 8 C. & P. 773. Vide Indictment; Quidam. 



Thesaurus Results for unknown:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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