Associations to the word «Ken»

Wiktionary

KEN, noun. Knowledge or perception.
KEN, noun. (nautical) Range of sight.
KEN, verb. (transitive) (mostly Scotland) To know, perceive or understand.
KEN, verb. (obsolete) (mostly Scotland) To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
KEN, noun. (slang) (UK) (obsolete) A house, especially a den of thieves.
KEN, proper noun. A diminutive of the male given name Kenneth.
KEN, symbol. The ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for Kenya.

Dictionary definition

KEN, noun. Range of what one can know or understand; "beyond my ken".
KEN, noun. The range of vision; "out of sight of land".

Wise words

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