well-known

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   widely or fully known

   a well-known politician

2. 2
   adj

   Familiar, famous, renowned, noted or widely known.

   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.

3. 3
   adj

   Generally recognized; reserved for some usual purpose.

   We would like to catalog other sockets which are supposed to be well-known

4. 4
   adj

   frequently experienced

Etymology

From Middle English well knowen. By surface analysis, well + known.