Ken

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  • noun. Perception; understanding.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Range of vision.
  • noun. View; sight.
  • intransitive verb. To know (a person or thing).
  • intransitive verb. To recognize.
  • intransitive verb. To have knowledge or an understanding.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Cognizance; physical or intellectual view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.
  • A dialectal variant of kine, plural of cow.
  • noun. The straight two-edged Japanese sword.
  • To beget; bring forth.
  • To breed; hatch out.
  • 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.
  • noun. A churn.
  • noun. A place where low or disreputable characters lodge or meet: as, a padding-ken (a lodging-house for tramps); a sport ing-ken
  • noun. A prefecture or territorial division of Japan, governed by a kenrei. Japan is now divided into 3 fu and about 40 ken.
  • noun. A Japanese measure of length, equal to 71½ English inches.
  • noun. An abbreviation of Kentueky.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.
  • transitive verb. To know; to understand; to take cognizance of.
  • transitive verb. To recognize; to descry; to discern.
  • noun. A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves.
  • intransitive verb. To look around.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Knowledge or perception.
  • noun. Range of sight.
  • verb. To know, perceive or understand.
  • verb. To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the range of vision
  • noun. range of what one can know or understand
  • Word Usage
    "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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    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    compass  grasp  knowing  range  reach  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adrienne  Amen  Ben  Cayenne  Chen  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Kent  canna  dinna  en  frae  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    Kent  kenned  kenning  
    verb-form
    kenned  kenning  kens  kent