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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Examples of "ken" in Sentences
- Ken,ken a prominent surgeon, spectacular father.
- Ken Arok indulged in gambling, plunder and rapine.
- Dan Backslide was a caricature of Jones' animator Ken Harris.
- Bruce is the father of Ken senior and grandfather of Ken junior.
- But Ken and the others get suspicious at the length of the blackout.
- The story of Ken Cantrell and the fire in the catapult room is true.
- Ken specifically displays the extrasensory perception clairsentience.
- In the anime, Ken Nakajima is a lovable but slightly oafish character.
- Ken Allen was the name given to a Bornean orangutan at the San Diego Zoo.
- Bruce is the father of Ken senior and grandfather of Ken junior McIntosh.
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