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
- May I suggest "Mission Accomplished" for the book title ken
- And as this destruction is near and within ken, so it is sure.
- Next, there'll be another story on the Tea Party, Todd and Imelda Palin ..... ken
- Soon as a guest comes within ken of a blue nose, the delightful operations commence.
- I am not sure why ken is propagandizing that the Democratic party is a shinking ship.
- Enoch spoke of Christ's second coming as within ken, Behold, the Lord cometh, Jude 14.
- Nor was it only her own kith and kin, but all who came within her ken were apt to find themselves the more or less surprised recipients of gifts.
- There's one part of London where all the Irish live -- at least all the worst of them -- and there they hatch their villanies and speak this tongue; it is that which keeps them together and makes them dangerous: I was once sent there to seize a couple of deserters -- Irish -- who had taken refuge amongst their companions; we found them in what was in my time called a ken, that is a house where only thieves and desperadoes are to be found.
- There's one part of London where all the Irish live -- at least all the worst of them -- and there they hatch their villanies to speak this tongue; it is that which keeps them together and makes them dangerous: I was once sent there to seize a couple of deserters -- Irish -- who had taken refuge amongst their companions; we found them in what was in my time called a ken, that is, a house where only thieves and desperadoes are to be found.
- There's one part of London where all the Irish live -- at least all the worst of them -- and there they hatch their villainies and speak this tongue; it is that which keeps them together and makes them dangerous: I was once sent there to seize a couple of deserters -- Irish -- who had taken refuge amongst their companions; we found them in what was in my time called a ken, that is a house where only thieves and desperadoes are to be found.
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