Ken

Definition of ken:

part of speech: participle

Kenned.

part of speech: verb

To see and recognise; know.

part of speech: verb

To know: to see and recognize at a distance.

part of speech: noun

Reach of knowledge or sight.

part of speech: verb

To know; understand.

part of speech: noun

View; knowledge.

part of speech: participle

Kenning.

Usage examples for ken:

• I myself had not read much of him, but I knew the essays he was printing in the Atlantic, and I knew certain of his poems, though by no means many; yet I had this sense of him, that he was somehow, beyond and above my ken a presence of force and beauty and wisdom, uncompanioned in our literature. "Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells", William Dean Howells.

• And they were married, and he and she are living happy till this day, for aught I ken "The Blue Fairy Book", Various.

• I wadna' say anythin' was wrong, ye ken but is he no' over confident and conceited aboot his wife?" "The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories", Bret Harte.

• His voice lowered again as Ken pulled his belt a notch tighter and snatched a last glimpse of the fish before leaving. "Seed of the Arctic Ice", H. G. Winter.