See unknown on Wiktionary
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"word": "as yet unknown"
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{
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{
"word": "person unknown"
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{
"word": "unknown known"
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{
"word": "unknownly"
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{
"word": "unknown number"
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{
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"ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:",
"text": "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.",
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"text": "I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.",
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{
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[
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"(sometimes postpositive) Not known; unidentified; not well known."
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "not known",
"word": "panjohur"
},
{
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"sense": "not known",
"word": "مَجْهُول"
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{
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"sense": "not known",
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{
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"sense": "not known",
"word": "անհայտ"
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{
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"sense": "not known",
"word": "desconocíu"
},
{
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"sense": "not known",
"word": "məchul"
},
{
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"sense": "not known",
"word": "naməlum"
},
{
"code": "az",
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"sense": "not known",
"word": "bilinməyən"
},
{
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"roman": "njevjadómy",
"sense": "not known",
"word": "невядо́мы"
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{
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"sense": "not known",
"word": "неизве́стен"
},
{
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"sense": "not known",
"word": "незна́ен"
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{
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"word": "desconegut"
},
{
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"roman": "wèizhī",
"sense": "not known",
"word": "未知"
},
{
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"roman": "bùmíng",
"sense": "not known",
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{
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"roman": "gėvėty vaḷʹyn",
"sense": "not known",
"word": "гэвэты ваԓьын"
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{
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},
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{
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{
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{
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},
{
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},
{
"code": "gl",
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"word": "descoñecido"
},
{
"code": "ka",
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"roman": "ucnobi",
"sense": "not known",
"word": "უცნობი"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "not known",
"word": "unbekannt"
},
{
"code": "got",
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"roman": "unkunþs",
"sense": "not known",
"word": "𐌿𐌽𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃"
},
{
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"sense": "not known",
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{
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{
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{
"code": "he",
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},
{
"code": "hi",
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"roman": "anjān",
"sense": "not known",
"word": "अनजान"
},
{
"code": "hi",
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"roman": "anjānā",
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{
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"roman": "ajānā",
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{
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"word": "अख्यात"
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{
"code": "hi",
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"roman": "ajñāt",
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{
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{
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