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ken (ken)

transitive verb kenned, kenning ken′·ning

  1. Scot. to know
  2. Archaic to see; look at; descry
  3. Now Chiefly Dial. to recognize

Etymology: ME kennen < OE cennan, lit., to cause to know < *kannjan < base of can, akin to Ger kennen, ON kenna, to know

intransitive verb

Scot. to know (of or about)

noun

  1. Rare range of vision
  2. mental perception; range of knowledge that is beyond my ken

Etymology: contr. < kenning

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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