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Definition of ken in English: kennoun kɛnkɛn One's range of knowledge or understanding. politics are beyond my ken Example sentencesExamples - The visitor should experience a little vertigo, because something is going on that is beyond his ken.
- Yes, for me too it was something totally different - beyond my ken.
- If there is a better job than travelling the globe at someone else's expense and being paid handsomely for it, then it is beyond our ken.
- The morons do not even protect the exposed steel with paint - and something as simple and old-fashioned as using galvanized bolts in the first place is clearly way beyond their ken.
- Maybe recognition of such a state is simply beyond his ken after all these years.
- Total awareness is a discipline beyond the ken of us ordinary mortals.
- There were powers stirring this night, strange things beyond his ken.
- ‘I think this is a bit beyond my ken,’ Updike says generously, before sheepishly moving on.
- How he can handle such pain and fear is beyond my ken.
- We sense a mathematical basis for the design, but one that lies beyond our ken.
- How anyone can take a steady daily diet of meetings is beyond my ken.
- You know also that forces beyond our ken are always at work.
- Concepts such as dollar cost averaging and compound interest are way beyond the ken of your average punter because they're never explained in the popular press.
- Such allusions, which portray Horace's awareness of politico-religious matters, can be said to be beyond the ken of a philological approach.
- That was 1990, and the friend and his friends were witty and sparkly, and totally convinced me that Aucklanders were smart and sophisticated and ironic beyond my ken.
- Moreover, the consequences lie far into the future and spread across the entire globe: way beyond their temporal and spatial kens.
- His actions seem senseless, but by the glint in his eye, you know he's operating with a logic beyond your ken.
- The sport of homing-pigeon racing has been developing for over a century, and they have been used to carry messages for longer, but how the birds navigate is still beyond our ken.
- Is it possible that in some far-off galaxy as yet beyond our ken creatures very different but perhaps far superior to us in intelligence live in a civilisation of their own?
- It's beyond my ken, but for those in the know there's an accompanying set of statistics, ranging from water absorption rates to frost resistance.
Synonyms knowledge, awareness, perception, understanding, grasp, comprehension, realization, apprehension, appreciation, consciousness, recognition, notice
verbkenned, kenning, kens, kent kɛnkɛn [with object]Northern English, Scottish 1Know. d'ye ken anyone who can boast of that? Example sentencesExamples - Just when you think you ken everything there is to ken about living in Scotland, you get a rude awakening.
- But our Ancestors kenned that some places are more lively, more powerful than other places, and this potency is explored through the medium of sacred geometry, through ley lines and stone circles.
Synonyms be acquainted with, have met, be familiar with - 1.1 Recognize; identify.
Synonyms identify, place, know, know again, pick out, put a name to
Origin Old English cennan 'tell, make known', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German kennen 'know, be acquainted with', from an Indo-European root shared by can1 and know. Current senses of the verb date from Middle English; the noun from the mid 16th century. know from Old English: The ancient root of know is shared by can and ken, ‘to know’ in Scots (all Old English), and also by Latin noscere, and Greek gignōskein ‘to know’, source of words such as agnostic. To know in the biblical sense, meaning ‘to have sex with’, comes from biblical uses such as the verse in the book of Genesis: ‘And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain.’ To know the ropes is to be thoroughly acquainted with the way in which something is done. The phrase comes from the days of sailing ships, when skill in handling ropes was essential for any sailor—an alternative is know their onions. The ancients valued self-knowledge as the way to wisdom—inscribed on the Greek temple of Apollo at Delphi were the words know thyself. The line ‘ It's life, Jim, but not as we know it’ is the mainstay of anyone trying to do an impression of Dr Spock from the TV series Star Trek, but he never said it in the programme. He did say that there was ‘no life as we know it’, but the quoted phrase is from the 1987 song ‘Star Trekkin'’ by the Firm. See also gnome
Rhymes Adrienne, again, amen, Ardennes, Behn, Ben, Benn, Bren, cayenne, Cévennes, Dairen, den, en, fen, gen, glen, Glenn, Guyenne, Gwen, hen, julienne, Karen, Len, Loren, men, Nene, Ogaden, paren, pen, Penn, Phnom Penh, Rennes, Shenzhen, Sun Yat-sen, ten, then, Tlemcen, when, wren, yen, zazen, Zen Definition of ken in US English: kennounkenkɛn One's range of knowledge or sight. such determination is beyond my ken Example sentencesExamples - Yes, for me too it was something totally different - beyond my ken.
- Total awareness is a discipline beyond the ken of us ordinary mortals.
- Is it possible that in some far-off galaxy as yet beyond our ken creatures very different but perhaps far superior to us in intelligence live in a civilisation of their own?
- There were powers stirring this night, strange things beyond his ken.
- The morons do not even protect the exposed steel with paint - and something as simple and old-fashioned as using galvanized bolts in the first place is clearly way beyond their ken.
- You know also that forces beyond our ken are always at work.
- Moreover, the consequences lie far into the future and spread across the entire globe: way beyond their temporal and spatial kens.
- His actions seem senseless, but by the glint in his eye, you know he's operating with a logic beyond your ken.
- Maybe recognition of such a state is simply beyond his ken after all these years.
- Concepts such as dollar cost averaging and compound interest are way beyond the ken of your average punter because they're never explained in the popular press.
- That was 1990, and the friend and his friends were witty and sparkly, and totally convinced me that Aucklanders were smart and sophisticated and ironic beyond my ken.
- The visitor should experience a little vertigo, because something is going on that is beyond his ken.
- The sport of homing-pigeon racing has been developing for over a century, and they have been used to carry messages for longer, but how the birds navigate is still beyond our ken.
- ‘I think this is a bit beyond my ken,’ Updike says generously, before sheepishly moving on.
- It's beyond my ken, but for those in the know there's an accompanying set of statistics, ranging from water absorption rates to frost resistance.
- How anyone can take a steady daily diet of meetings is beyond my ken.
- How he can handle such pain and fear is beyond my ken.
- Such allusions, which portray Horace's awareness of politico-religious matters, can be said to be beyond the ken of a philological approach.
- If there is a better job than travelling the globe at someone else's expense and being paid handsomely for it, then it is beyond our ken.
- We sense a mathematical basis for the design, but one that lies beyond our ken.
Synonyms knowledge, awareness, perception, understanding, grasp, comprehension, realization, apprehension, appreciation, consciousness, recognition, notice
verbkenkɛn [with object]Scottish, Northern English 1Know. d'ye ken anyone who can boast of that? Example sentencesExamples - But our Ancestors kenned that some places are more lively, more powerful than other places, and this potency is explored through the medium of sacred geometry, through ley lines and stone circles.
- Just when you think you ken everything there is to ken about living in Scotland, you get a rude awakening.
Synonyms be acquainted with, have met, be familiar with - 1.1 Recognize; identify.
Synonyms identify, place, know, know again, pick out, put a name to
Origin Old English cennan ‘tell, make known’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German kennen ‘know, be acquainted with’, from an Indo-European root shared by can and know. Current senses of the verb date from Middle English; the noun from the mid 16th century. |