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ENGLISH: unknown - CREOLE: etranj

Overview of noun unknown

The noun unknown has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (5) unknown, unknown region, terra incognita -- (an unknown and unexplored region; "they came like angels out the unknown")

2. stranger, alien, unknown -- (anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found)

3. unknown, unknown quantity -- (a variable whose values are solutions of an equation)

Overview of adj unknown

The adj unknown has 5 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)

1. (16) unknown -- (not known; "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an unknown writer"; "an unknown source")

2. (2) nameless, unidentified, unknown, unnamed -- (being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by an unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless owners"; "an unnamed donor")

3. (1) unknown -- (not known to exist; "things obscurely felt surged up from unsuspected depths in her"- Edith Wharton)

4. (1) obscure, unknown, unsung -- (not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes of the war")

5. strange, unknown -- (not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house")