- KEN Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
Ken appeared on the English horizon in the 16th century referring to the distance bounding the range of ordinary vision at sea (about 20 miles), and would thus have been familiar to skippers in particular Its meaning soon broadened, however, to mean “range of vision” or “sight” on land or sea
- KEN Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Ken definition: knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception See examples of KEN used in a sentence
- KEN definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
Ken in American English (ken) noun a male given name, form of Kendall or Kenneth
- KEN | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
In this context, the phrase is infelicitous : ' beyond one's ken ', in its ordinary usage, means beyond one's powers of comprehension
- Ken - definition of ken by The Free Dictionary
1 knowledge or understanding: an idea beyond one's ken 2 range of sight or vision
- Ken Burns - Wikipedia
Kenneth Lauren Burns was born on July 29, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York [2] His parents were Lyla Smith (née Tupper) Burns, [3] a biotechnician, [4] and Robert Kyle Burns Jr , who at the time of Ken's birth was a graduate student in cultural anthropology at Columbia University [3] The documentary filmmaker Ric Burns is his younger brother [5][6] Burns' academic family moved frequently
- ken - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
In common usage a fossil word, found only in phrases such as beyond one’s ken and swim into one’s ken
- Ken Definition Meaning - YourDictionary
Ken definition: Perception; understanding
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