Definitions for Ken

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Ken ken

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IPA: /kɛn/

Ken is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 9 anagrams from letters in Ken (ekn).

Definitions for Ken

noun

1. knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception:
2. range of sight or vision.
3. a male given name, form of Kendall or Kenneth.

verb (used with object)

1. Chiefly Scot. to know, have knowledge of or about, or be acquainted with (a person or thing). to understand or perceive (an idea or situation).
2. Scots Law. to acknowledge as heir; recognize by a judicial act.
3. Archaic. to see; descry; recognize.
4. British Dialect Archaic. to declare, acknowledge, or confess (something). to teach, direct, or guide (someone).

verb (used without object)

1. British Dialect. to have knowledge of something. to understand.

Origin of Ken

before 900; Middle English kennen to make known, see, know, Old English cennan to make known, declare; cognate with Old Norse kenna, German kennen; akin to can¹

Examples for Ken

Ye see I ken sae muckle they ken naething aboot, or they wudna be as they are!

For I hae seen him noo, and ken him noo—the houp o' glory in my hert and my life!

So the plan is for ken to draw an arc with Dale doing covers, and then Dale does an arc with ken doing covers.

Brooklyn district attorney ken Thompson explained his decision to impanel a grand jury in a statement released Friday.

It maks my hert sair to ken 'at no guid will your hert get o' his.

Life's naked brutalities had theretofore been largely out of his ken.

I'm thinkin we dee mair things in faith than we ken—but no eneuch!

ken Russell, the now sadly deceased British film director, told me he considered Jarman a visionary.

In 1978, for instance, Hockney was introduced to a new printing method by the famed printer ken Tyler.

You have mentioned in interview that Dale Eaglesham and ken Lashley are joining you on the new Secret Six.