BE KNOWN AS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does be known as mean? 

• BE KNOWN AS (verb)
  The verb BE KNOWN AS has 2 senses:

1. assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

2. look on as or consider

  Familiarity information: BE KNOWN AS used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BE KNOWN AS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

be known as; call; know as; name

Context example:

The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader

Hypernyms (to "be known as" is one way to...):

label (assign a label to; designate with a label)

Verb group:

call (ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality)

address; call (greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "be known as"):

baptise; baptize; christen (administer baptism to)

refer (use a name to designate)

style; title (designate by an identifying term)

dub; nickname (give a nickname to)

rename (assign a new name to)

entitle; title (give a title to)

term (name formally or designate with a term)

tag (provide with a name or nickname)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Look on as or consider

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

be known as; esteem; know as; look on; look upon; regard as; repute; take to be; think of

Context example:

He is reputed to be intelligent

Hypernyms (to "be known as" is one way to...):

believe; conceive; consider; think (judge or regard; look upon; judge)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

In about two weeks, once GOES-R is situated in orbit 22,300 miles above Earth, it will be known as GOES-16.

(GOES-R heads to orbit, will improve weather forecasting, NOAA)

Sometimes, of an evening, when I was at home and at work—for I wrote a good deal now, and was beginning in a small way to be known as a writer—I would lay down my pen, and watch my child-wife trying to be good.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)