adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a famous/well-known author
▪ The famous author Henry James lived here.
a famous/well-known landmark
▪ The Eiffel Tower is probably the most famous landmark in Paris.
a famous/well-known phrase
▪ We all hear the phrase "greenhouse gasses", but do you know what it really means?
a well-known fact
▪ It is a well-known fact that new cars lose a lot of their value in the first year.
a well-known/famous actor
▪ I’d really like to be a famous actor.
deservedly popular/well-known/famous etc
▪ Bistro Roti is a deservedly popular restaurant.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
less
▪ Some of the smaller, less well-known building societies can offer very competitive deals.
▪ What is less well-known is that rather similar effects may happen with a blow on the forehead which does not penetrate.
▪ While she is lauded in London intellectual circles, she is less well-known to the general public.
▪ LA2, next door, is primarily a club, but also attracts less well-known bands.
▪ Here, the Fund runs many family projects that are less well-known but doing work that is every bit as important.
▪ RealProducer, however, is less well-known.
▪ But a different and less well-known set of problems emerges when attempts are made to examine alternation between standard and non-standard forms.
most
▪ Gua and Vicki were the most well-known subjects. 2.
▪ Work has started re-building one of the region's most well-known public houses.
▪ The most well-known application of radiocarbon must be the dating of the Shroud of Turin.
▪ The most well-known of these cases is StarLink corn.
▪ The most well-known ones are maggots, casters and sweetcorn.
▪ Moreover, his parables and ethical sayings are among the most well-known passages in the bible.
▪ The most well-known biochemical theory relates to the activity of one of the neurotransmitters, dopamine, at the synapses between nerves.
so
▪ This process of coalition building is so well-known that some companies have invented their own language around it.
■ NOUN
artist
▪ A well-known artist tutors at least two of these meetings each year, providing advice on techniques and interpretation.
▪ Galleries feature the works of well-known artists.
brand
▪ Householders are thus tempted to purchase this less well-known brand more upon the basis of price than comparative performance.
▪ These large companies have obvious advantages in the service provider business because of their well-known brand names.
▪ Textbooks used to teach that consumer goods with well-known brand names were nearly invincible and able to get away with outrageous pricing.
▪ Try making your own muesli rather than buying well-known brands.
▪ The new organisation will boast some well-known brands which some palates might judge to be competitors.
▪ It fell to him to change the look of advertising for a well-known brand of cigarettes.
character
▪ Harry Hinton was a well-known character of his day.
▪ He was a well-known character in this area, said Mr Curran, the diocesan lawyer, on the trip home.
▪ The market had many well-known characters and two spring immediately to mind.
company
▪ It invests in well-known companies and has a minimum monthly contribution of £20.
example
▪ A well-known example of a reductive charge-transfer band is in the spectrum of the permanganate ion,.
▪ The miracles of shamans, saints, and saviors are, again, well-known examples.
▪ The second well-known example is the chicken produced by Fermier Landais.
▪ By this token, there is the well-known example of the peppered moth of Britain.
▪ Picture dictation and giving routes from maps are well-known examples of such activities.
▪ Nevertheless, the well-known examples will probably be costly.
▪ Another well-known example is that of the horse Clever Hans.
▪ A well-known example can be found at Bawdley, Severn Valley Railway.
face
▪ During the three winter months, almost the entire squadron changed - well-known faces gradually disappearing and being replaced by new ones.
fact
▪ It is a well-known fact that ferrets have mated with polecats in the wild.
▪ In support of this, they outline at length and in detail the well-known facts of fetal development.
▪ It's a well-known fact that in Knutsford the Fire-Brigade is ex-directory.
▪ Then my client remembered a second well-known fact about students: they love to sleep late.
▪ She did not need evidence, she assured me, it was a well-known fact.
▪ It is a well-known fact that exchange rate-based stabilisation programmes generally result in a widening in the current account deficit.
name
▪ I joined the Lord's Taverners and took part in charity matches alongside many well-known names from sport and show business.
▪ Borrowers who stuck with some of the well-known names have also lost out.
▪ The choice of book is usually restricted to well-known writers from well-known publishers, reviewed by well-known names.
▪ Some were well-known names who dominated the financial pages with their derring-do.
▪ Bristol &038; West is one of the few well-known names that has recently broadened its mortgage range to include nonconforming borrowers.
▪ Intermagnetics, of Santa Monica, California, has been a well-known name in magnetic tape for several years.
writer
▪ The choice of book is usually restricted to well-known writers from well-known publishers, reviewed by well-known names.
▪ Howie is a well-known writer and clown.
▪ Other well-known writers emphasize not the failures of servants, but the tyranny of masters.
▪ I was shy about meeting well-known writers people whose names were printed black on white.
▪ Mark Twain came to visit, and Mary Austin, who was to become a well-known writer, came to live.
▪ When he approached a group of well-known writers, they refused to buy even a drawing.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
well-known/little-known/lesser-known
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A diverse family of warm-blooded mammals whose grace and beauty are well-known and appreciated across all five continents.
▪ Cytomegalovirus is a less well-known infection which affects considerably greater numbers of babies than rubella.
▪ He purchased Western Union through a bankruptcycourt reorganization, selling off its well-known money-transfer business.
▪ She came from a well-known north London family, and was the widow of a proctor.
▪ She was a well-known author in her day, writing fiction, biographies, translations, and even plays for children.
▪ Since then the homes of several well-known authors have come into the Trust's care.
▪ Take the cases of two well-known strikes involving women - the strikes at Trico and at Electrolux.
▪ Thirty-six well-known theater stars are scheduled to perform.