Recognized

Adjective

 * 1) Notable; distinguished; honored.

Verb
recognized

Thesaurus
accepted, acknowledged, admitted, affirmed, allowed, appreciated, apprehended, approved, ascertained, authenticated, avowed, being done, certified, comme il faut, comprehended, conceded, conceived, confessed, confirmed, conformable, conventional, correct, countersigned, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous, discerned, down pat, endorsed, established, fixed, folk, formal, granted, grasped, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, immemorial, inveterate, known, legendary, long-established, long-standing, meet, mythological, notarized, of long standing, of the folk, oral, orthodox, pat, perceived, prehended, prescriptive, professed, proper, ratified, realized, received, right, rooted, sealed, seemly, seized, signed, stamped, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, underwritten, unwritten, validated, venerable, warranted, worshipful

Alternative forms

 * recognised (UK)