well-attested

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English

Adjective

well-attested (not comparable)

  1. Supported by a great deal of evidence.
  2. (linguistics) Of words or languages, proven to exist through a large number of examples or copious records.
    • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2:
      Cummings and Wolf (2011) covers Chinglish, but not the well-attested terms Honglish and Hongkonglish[.]