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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
unknown
adj
  1. not known; "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an unknown writer"; "an unknown source"
    Antonym(s): known
  2. being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by an unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless owners"; "an unnamed donor"
    Synonym(s): nameless, unidentified, unknown, unnamed
  3. not known to exist; "things obscurely felt surged up from unknown depths"
  4. not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes of the war"
    Synonym(s): obscure, unknown, unsung
  5. not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house"
    Synonym(s): strange, unknown
n
  1. an unknown and unexplored region; "they came like angels out the unknown"
    Synonym(s): unknown, unknown region, terra incognita
  2. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
    Synonym(s): stranger, alien, unknown
    Antonym(s): acquaintance, friend
  3. a variable whose values are solutions of an equation
    Synonym(s): unknown, unknown quantity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Unknown \Un*known"\, a.
      Not known; not apprehended. -- {Un*known"ness}, n. [R.]
      --Camden.
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