Meaning and Origin
What does the name Unknown mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
- A variable whose values are solutions of an equation
- An unknown and unexplored region ("they came like angels out the unknown")
- Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
- Being or having an unknown or unnamed source ("a poem by an unknown author")
- Not known before ("don't let anyone unknown into the house")
- Not famous or acclaimed
- Not known ("an unknown amount", "an unknown island", "an unknown writer", and "an unknown source")
- Not known to exist ("things obscurely felt surged up from unknown depths")
From un- + known, past participle of know. Compare Old English ungecnawen.
- (algebra) A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.
- Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information.
- A person of no identity; a nonentity