"well known" meaning in English

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      "form": "better known",
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    {
      "form": "best known",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "As is well known, heavy drinking is dangerous.",
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          "ref": "1976, IDE Special Paper, numbers 1-12, →OCLC, page 41:",
          "text": "However, Hsinch'ang District, Chihchiang County, Hupei Province is well known for its use of the ox-drawn, three-bladed cultivator in cotton farming.",
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          "ref": "1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 178, about Eynsford:",
          "text": "The village was once well known for its paper-milling, founded by Huguenot immigrants in 1648, which produced high-quality hand-made paper until 1952.",
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          "ref": "2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:",
          "text": "If you feel I have short-changed Brunel by not detailing all his accomplishments, it's only because he's so well known to us rail aficionados.",
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        "Alternative form of well-known."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(predicative) Alternative form of well-known."
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  "word": "well known"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "better known",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "best known",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "As is well known, heavy drinking is dangerous.",
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              67,
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          "ref": "1976, IDE Special Paper, numbers 1-12, →OCLC, page 41:",
          "text": "However, Hsinch'ang District, Chihchiang County, Hupei Province is well known for its use of the ox-drawn, three-bladed cultivator in cotton farming.",
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        },
        {
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              21,
              31
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 178, about Eynsford:",
          "text": "The village was once well known for its paper-milling, founded by Huguenot immigrants in 1648, which produced high-quality hand-made paper until 1952.",
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        },
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              108,
              118
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          "ref": "2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:",
          "text": "If you feel I have short-changed Brunel by not detailing all his accomplishments, it's only because he's so well known to us rail aficionados.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "(predicative) Alternative form of well-known."
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  "word": "well known"
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