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LITTLE-KNOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does little-known mean? 

LITTLE-KNOWN (adjective)
  The adjective LITTLE-KNOWN has 1 sense:

1. unknown to most peopleplay

  Familiarity information: LITTLE-KNOWN used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LITTLE-KNOWN (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Unknown to most people

Similar:

unknown (not known)


 Context examples 


It was my business to visit this little-known back-country and to examine its fauna, which furnished me with the materials for several chapters for that great and monumental work upon zoology which will be my life's justification.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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