ken
IPA: kˈɛn
noun
- Knowledge, perception, or sight.
- (nautical) Range of sight.
- (slang, UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A house, especially a den of thieves.
- (Judaism) Youth or children's group.
- A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus.
- The tsurugi (type of sword).
- A diminutive of the male given name Kenneth.
- (colloquial, in combination) Kensington in London.
- A surname.
verb
- (obsolete) To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).
- (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To know, perceive or understand.
- (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
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