Ken meaning

kĕn
kenned kenning kens
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Ken is defined as the range of what you know.

An example of ken is your knowledge of things from cooking to baseball statistics.

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Perception; understanding.

Complex issues well beyond our ken.

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To know (a person or thing).
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Mental perception; range of knowledge.

That is beyond my ken.

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To have knowledge or an understanding.
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(scot.) To know.
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(now chiefly dial.) To recognize.
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To recognize.
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Kentucky.
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(archaic) To see; look at; descry.
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(rare) Range of vision.
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The ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for Kenya.
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A diminutive of the male given name Kenneth.
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(scot.) To know (of or about)
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Origin of ken

  • From Middle English kennen (influenced by Old Norse kenna to know) from Old English cennan to declare gnō- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ken Sentence Examples

  • The Jumna and the Ken are the only two navigable rivers.

  • Only now we know that no one of these is more than a single glimpse at a vast complex of phenomena, most of which lie for ever beyond our ken.

  • Rohde (Rheinisches Museum, i., 1895) regards them as spirits of the storm, which at the bidding of the gods carry off human beings alive to the under-world or some spot beyond human ken.

  • Did ye ken it was talk like a pirate day, ye scurvy dogs?

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