unknown.html - {n.} Someone or something whose value and importance are not known, especially in a certain situation, time or place; a new and untested person or thing. * /What we would find if we could fly to the moon is an unknown quantity./ * /The new player is still an unknown quantity. We'll find out how good he is in the game./

unknown.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

that cannot be known.

--n.

1 an unknowable thing.
2 (the Unknowable) the postulated absolute or ultimate reality.

unknown.html - adj. & n.
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(often foll. by of) not knowing; ignorant, unconscious.

--n.

ignorance (cloud of unknowing).

unknowingly adv. unknowingness n.

unknown.html - adj. & n.
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(often foll. by to) not known, unfamiliar (his purpose was unknown to me).

--n.

1 an unknown thing or person.
2 an unknown quantity (equation in two unknowns).

unknown country see COUNTRY . unknown quantity a person or thing whose nature, significance, etc., cannot be determined. Unknown Soldier an unidentified representative member of a country's armed forces killed in war, given burial with special honours in a national memorial. unknown to without the knowledge of (did it unknown to me). Unknown Warrior = Unknown Soldier.

unknownness n.

unknown.html - {n.} Someone or something whose value and importance are not known, especially in a certain situation, time or place; a new and untested person or thing. * /What we would find if we could fly to the moon is an unknown quantity./ * /The new player is still an unknown quantity. We'll find out how good he is in the game./

unknown.html - v.tr.
(unknotted, unknotting) release the knot or knots of, untie.