knownPronunciation: /nəʊn/past participle of knowTranslate known | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of known adjective recognized, familiar, or within the scope of knowledge:plants little known to western science the known world [attributive] publicly acknowledged to be:a known criminal Mathematics (of a quantity or variable) having a value that can be stated. known in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of known in the US English dictionary