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ken
1[ ken ]
noun
- knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception:
an idea beyond one's ken.
- range of sight or vision.
verb (used with object)
- Chiefly Scot.
- to know, have knowledge of or about, or be acquainted with (a person or thing).
- to understand or perceive (an idea or situation).
- Scots Law. to acknowledge as heir; recognize by a judicial act.
- Archaic. to see; descry; recognize.
- British Dialect, Archaic.
- to declare, acknowledge, or confess (something).
- to teach, direct, or guide (someone).
verb (used without object)
- British Dialect.
- to have knowledge of something.
- to understand.
Ken.
3abbreviation for
- Kentucky.
ken
1/ kɛn /
noun
- range of knowledge or perception (esp in the phrases beyond or in one's ken )
verb
- dialect.to know
- dialect.to understand; perceive
- archaic.tr to see
Ken.
2abbreviation for
- Kentucky
Word History and Origins
Origin of ken1
Word History and Origins
Origin of ken1
Example Sentences
That didn’t happen here because Drozd, an Obama appointee, can recognize a factitious claim for standing when it swims into his ken.
He was also recruited to civic leadership roles that were beyond the ken of politically-hobbled government bureaucracies.
When Mani audited a course on theoretical physics, it was generally assumed that the material would be "beyond her ken", Sur observes.
But Rome and its environs conceal many holy places beyond the ken of the Bible.
Notwithstanding academic quibbles about the accuracy of Khrushchev’s interpreter, the communist leader seems to have been prescient beyond his ken.
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