ken

noun

/ken/

Word OriginOld 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 cent.

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Idioms

beyond your ken

(old-fashioned) if something is beyond your ken, you do not know enough about it to be able to understand it

ken

verb

/ken/

[intransitive, transitive] (Scottish English, Northern British English)

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they ken	/ken/ /ken/
he / she / it kens	/kenz/ /kenz/
past simple kenned	/kend/ /kend/
past participle kenned	/kend/ /kend/
-ing form kenning	/ˈkenɪŋ/ /ˈkenɪŋ/

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ken (something) | ken (that)… | ken what, where, etc… to know Kent is the usual form of the past tense used in Scotland.
Word OriginOld 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 cent.

Ken

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a first name for boys, short for Kenneth

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