ken
noun/ken/
/ken/
Word OriginOld English cennan ‘tell, make known’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German kennen ‘know, be acquainted with’, from an Indo-European root shared by can and know. Current senses of the verb date from Middle English; the noun from the mid 16th cent.
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See ken in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybeyond your ken
- (old-fashioned) if something is beyond your ken, you do not know enough about it to be able to understand it
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