ken
verbeverbenomnomnomnomnomcourant dans les dialogues
- //kɛn//
- //kɪn//
To know, perceive or understand.
verbe
- 1
obsolèteTo give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).
To the soul this ghostly bread is the learning and the teaching and the understanding in the commandments of God, wherethrough the soul is kenned and lives.
Étymologie
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.
verbe
- 1
To know, perceive or understand.
It was noted by them that kenned best that her cantrips were at their worst when the tides in the Sker Bay ebbed between the hours of twelve and one.
Johnny: Is your name Maggie? / Maggie: How'd you ken that? / Johnny: It's just a hunch. Are you looking for the, uh, petulant dwarf?
Ah thought he wis being harsh, flippant and show-oafy, until ah got sae far in. Now ah ken precisely what the cunt meant.
- 2
obsolèteTo discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
'Tis he. I ken the manner of his gate, / He riſes on the toe:
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.
We ken them from afar.
Étymologie
Northern English dialects and Scots language from Middle English kennen, from Old English cennan (“make known, declare, acknowledge”) originally “to make known”, causative of cunnan (“to become acquainted with, to know”), from Proto-West Germanic *kannijan, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną, causative of *kunnaną (“be able”), from which comes the verb can. Cognate with West Frisian kenne (“to know; recognise”), Dutch kennen (“to know”), German kennen (“to know, be acquainted with someone/something”), Norwegian Bokmål kjenne, Norwegian Nynorsk kjenna, Old Norse kenna (“to know, perceive”), Swedish känna (“to know, feel”), Danish kende (“to know”). See also: can, con.
nom
- 1
Range of perception.
I had somehow the impression that he was on the point of letting go the ladder to swim away beyond my ken.
- 2
Knowledge, perception, or sight.
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.
- 3
Range of sight.
At once as far as Angels kenn he views / The dismal Situation waste and wilde […]
Étymologie
From a nautical abbreviation of Middle English kenning, present participle of the verb kennen (“to make known, point out, reveal; to direct, instruct, teach; to know, perceive”).
nom
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argotA house, especially a den of thieves.
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.
Étymologie
Of unknown origin. Perhaps from kennel.
nom
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Youth or children's group.
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.
Étymologie
From Hebrew קֵן (qēn, “nest”).
nom
- 1
A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus.
Étymologie
Borrowed from Japanese 間.
nom
- 1
The tsurugi (type of sword).
Étymologie
Borrowed from Japanese 剣.
Formes
- pluriel
- kens, kenim
- passé
- kenned, kent
- participe passé
- kenned, kent
- participe présent
- kenning
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- kens
ken · To know, perceive or understand.
Ken · A diminutive of the male given name Kenneth.Kendall · A habitational surname from Old English.kendra · center