Ken

Noun

 * 1) Knowledge or perception.
 * 2)  Range of sight.

Verb

 * 1)  To know, perceive or understand.
 * 2)  To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
 * 3) *1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
 * I proposed to the Mariners, that it would be of great benefit in Navigation to make use of [the telescope] upon the round-top of a ship, to discover and kenne Vessels afar off.

Related terms

 * kenned
 * kenning
 * unkenned

Adjectives for Ken
inscrutable; human; widest.

Thesaurus
absorb, acquaintance, appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, be acquainted with, be apprised of, be aware of, be cognizant of, be conscious of, be conversant with, be informed, be with one, behold, catch, catch on, catch sight of, clap eyes on, clear sight, cognize, color vision, command, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conceptualize, cone vision, corpus, data, datum, day vision, daylight vision, descry, dig, digest, discern, discernment, discover, distinguish, domination, espy, experience, expertise, eye, eye-mindedness, eyereach, eyeshot, eyesight, facts, factual base, familiarity, farsight, farsightedness, fathom, field of view, field of vision, follow, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, glimpse, grasp, have, have in sight, have information about, have it taped, have knowledge of, horizon, information, intelligence, intimacy, keen sight, know, know-how, knowing, knowledge, lay eyes on, learn, limit of vision, line of sight, look on, look upon, make out, master, naked eye, night vision, notice, observe, outlook, outlook over, perceive, perception, peripheral field, peripheral vision, perspective, perspicacity, perspicuity, photopia, pick out, possess, power of sight, practical knowledge, prehend, private knowledge, privity, prospect, purview, quick sight, range, ratio cognoscendi, reach, read, realize, recognize, rod vision, savvy, scan, scope, scope of vision, scotopia, see, seeing, seize, seize the meaning, self-knowledge, sense, sense of sight, sight, sightedness, sightliness, spot, spy, survey, sweep, take, take in, technic, technics, technique, twig, twilight vision, understand, understanding, unobstructed vision, view, vision, vista, visual acuity, visual field, visual sense, witness, wot, wot of

Etymology
Northern and Scottish dialects from cennan: originally “make to know”, causative of cunnan:, from  kenna:, from, causative of. Cognate to kennen:.

The noun meaning “range of sight” is a nautical abbreviation of present participle kenning:.

Noun

 * Russian:


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * Russian:

Anagrams

 * nek, enk

Pronoun

 * 1)  who; (when followed by a modifier in elative case, -sta/-stä) which one (of + a noun referring to people).
 * 2)  whoever.

Etymology
From the same as Hungarian ki:.

Inflection

 * See kuka.

Synonyms

 * kuka
 * kuka tahansa

Verb

 * 1) to smear

Etymology
Of unknown origin.

Conjunction

 * 1) 兼: concurrently

Noun

 * 1)  sword
 * 2)  prefecture

Noun

 * 1) laugh
 * 2) smile

Pinyin syllable
ken



Noun

 * 1) knowledge or perception

Verb

 * 1)  To know, perceive or understand.
 * Do ye ken John Peel with his coat so gay? - 18th century ballad
 * 1) * Dae ye ken Ken kens Ken?
 * Do you know Ken knows Ken?"

Etymology
From cennan:, originally "make to know", causative of cunnan:.