Ken

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Perception; understanding: complex issues well beyond our ken.
  • n. Range of vision.
  • n. View; sight.
  • v. To know (a person or thing).
  • v. To recognize.
  • verb-intransitive. To have knowledge or an understanding.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Knowledge or perception.
  • n. Range of sight.
  • v. To know, perceive or understand.
  • v. To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves.
  • v. To know; to understand; to take cognizance of.
  • v. To recognize; to descry; to discern.
  • verb-intransitive. To look around.
  • n. Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To show; declare; teach; point out; tell.
  • To see; descry; recognize.
  • To lie within sight of; have a view of.
  • To know; understand; take cognizance of.
  • In Scots law, to acknowledge or recognize by a judicial act: as, to ken a widow to her terce (that is, to recognize or decree by a judicial act the right of a widow to the life-rent of her share of her deceased husband's lands). See terce.
  • To look around; gain knowledge by sight; discern.
  • n. Cognizance; physical or intellectual view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.
  • To beget; bring forth.
  • To breed; hatch out.
  • A dialectal variant of kine, plural of cow.
  • n. A churn.
  • n. A place where low or disreputable characters lodge or meet: as, a padding-ken (a lodging-house for tramps); a sport ing-ken
  • n. A prefecture or territorial division of Japan, governed by a kenrei. Japan is now divided into 3 fu and about 40 ken.
  • n. A Japanese measure of length, equal to 71½ English inches.
  • n. The straight two-edged Japanese sword.
  • n. An abbreviation of Kentueky.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the range of vision
  • n. range of what one can know or understand
  • Verb Form
    kenned    kenning    kens    kent   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    grasp    reach    range    compass    knowing   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    Kent    kenning    kenned   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    house    recognize    descry    discern    cognizance    view    knowing    knowledge    know    understand   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adrienne    Amen    Ben    Cayenne    Chen    Cheyenne    Den    Gen    Glen    Glenn   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    hae    weel    sae    nane    kin    frae    wad    ll    dinna    muckle