Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unknown; obscure.
  • noun An unknown person.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Unknown.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete unknown
  • noun obsolete One who is unknown.

Etymologies

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Latin ignotus; prefix in- not + gnotus, notus, known, past participle of gnocere, nocere, to learn, to know.

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