Definition: noted

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

noted
     adj 1: widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated
            musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious
            judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter"
            [syn: celebrated, famed, far-famed, famous, illustrious,
             notable, renowned]
     2: worthy of notice or attention; "a noted increase in the
        crime rate"

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Note \Note\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Noted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Noting.] [F. noter, L. notare, fr. nota. See Note, n.]
   1. To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to
      attend to. --Pope.

            No more of that; I have noted it well. --Shak.

   2. To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.

            Every unguarded word . . . was noted down.
                                                  --Maccaulay.

   3. To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing
      charged); to brand. [Obs.]

            They were both noted of incontinency. --Dryden.

   4. To denote; to designate. --Johnson.

   5. To annotate. [R.] --W. H. Dixon.

   6. To set down in musical characters.

   To note a bill or draft, to record on the back of it a
      refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which
      is done officially by a notary.

Noted \Not"ed\, a.
   Well known by reputation or report; eminent; celebrated; as,
   a noted author, or traveler. -- Not"ed*ly, adv. --
   Not"ed*ness, n.