English Explanatory Dictionary

ken

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).
verb
  1. To know, perceive or understand.
  2. To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
noun
  1. Range of perception.
  2. Knowledge, perception, or sight.
  3. Range of sight.
noun
  1. A house, especially a den of thieves.
noun
  1. Youth or children's group.
noun
  1. A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus.
noun
  1. The tsurugi (type of sword).
name
  1. A diminutive of the male given name Kenneth.
  2. Kensington in London.
  3. Synonym of Ken doll.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/kɛn/ /kɪn/ En-us-ken.ogg

Word forms

ken kens kenning kenned kent kene kenim

Etymology

From Middle English kennen (“to give birth, conceive, generate, beget; to develop (as a fetus), hatch out (of eggs); to sustain, nourish, nurture”), from Old English cennan (“to give birth, conceive, generate, beget”), from Proto-West Germanic *kannjan, from Proto-Germanic *kanjaną.

Synonyms

Ken doll

Related words

can con jan ken po ken oath

Derived words

beken foreken kenned kenner kenning misken miskenning outken underken unken unkenned unkenning kenlore kennetic boozing ken bousing ken dossing-ken dunniken dunny-ken flatty-ken gentry cove's ken grubbing ken padding-ken queer ken stauling-ken wapping ken Ken Burns effect Red Ken

Translations

Esperanto: scio Georgian: ცოდნა Polish: percepcja Polish: zrozumienie Russian: кругозо́р Serbo-Croatian: vidokrug Serbo-Croatian: shvaćanje
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