Meaning of Ken | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Range of perception.
   uncountable
2. A diminutive of the male given name Kenneth.
3. A house, especially a den of thieves.
   UK, regional, slang
4. A surname.
5. Youth or children's group.
   Judaism
6. A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus.
7. The tsurugi (type of sword).
8. Knowledge, perception, or sight.
   uncountable
9. Kensington in London.
   colloquial, in-compounds
10. Range of sight.
    uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I had somehow the impression that he was on the point of letting go the ladder to swim away beyond my ken.”

“So far is it from the kenne of theſe wretched projectors of ours that beſcraull their Pamflets every day with new formes of government for our Church.”

“Within our ken / The Nightingale—ah! Love, the Nightingale! / Her tender sweetness made our cheeks grow pale,”

“These people, these 20 or 25, were in my ken. Senator Jenner. In his what? Mr. Greenglass. My ken, my line of vision, my knowledge.”

“On this occasion, I wrote to them: "Two more modest and deserving people than you are not in our ken; and it is but fitting that you receive this, preservation's most prestigious prize, for your selfless devotion to the cause through the years.”

“Though he was out in the streets and away from the Firm and the Firm's ken, though he had work to do and action to relieve him, he was angry.”

“Since nothing in our ken differentiates knowledge from luck, something beyond our ken is introduced to do so. But the conviction that we know something is small comfort when coupled with the realization that we cannot tell what.”

“I couldn't see the funny side myself, but Tristan could; after a while he could hardly control his merriment, in fact, so that he collapsed back on the bed, continuing to chortle, more of his rather unpleasant teeth making an unwelcome appearance in my ken.”

“It was an intelligence beyond human ken but integral to everything, perhaps most like the Great Tao of Eastern philosophy of the same period, and it flowed like a European form of Chinese chi.”

“At once as far as Angels kenn he views / The dismal Situation waste and wilde […]”

“Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.”

“Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your bingo muns in spite of the darkmans. Egad, you carry a bene blink aloft. Come to the ken alone—no! my blowen; did not I tell you I should bring a pater cove, to chop up the whiners for Dawson?”

“Up she goes to any likely ken, where she knows there are women that are married or expect to get married, and commences begging.”

“Gilboa and Habonim Dror also run year-round programming, holding regional reunions (called kenim) up and down the state”

“Gavriella: At an annual movement conference. I went for the first time, and we proposed creating new kenim [branches] and it was approved, which is amazing!”

“At the beginning of 1944 he was sent to Debreccen to operate the local ken and to organize self-defense.”

“The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.”

“Kensington High Street — better known as High Street Ken after the nearby tube — is dominated architecturally by […]”

“The ladies (and gentlemen) of South Ken and Chelsea do like their raw food, and Daphne's does a terrific tuna tartare with avocado and wild fennel, black figs, gorgonzola and hazelnuts; […]”

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