unknown

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   being or having an unknown or unnamed source

   a poem by an unknown author

2. 2
   adj

   not known

   an unknown amount

3. 3
   adj

   not known to exist

   things obscurely felt surged up from unknown depths

4. 4
   noun

   an unknown and unexplored region

   they came like angels out the unknown

5. 5
   adj

   Not known; unidentified; not well known.

   The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.

6. 6
   noun

   Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information.

   Had God walked close beside her into the unknown?

7. 7
   noun

   A person of no identity; a nonentity.

   How does it feel, / how does it feel? / To be on your own, / with no direction home / A complete unknown, / like a rolling stone

8. 8
   adj

   not known before

Etymology

From Middle English *unknowen, *uniknowen, uniknowe, from Old English unġecnāwen (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + known.