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ken /ken, kɛn /
▸ noun [in singular] one's range of knowledge or sight:
such determination is beyond my ken.
▸ verb
(kens, kenning; past and past participle kenned or kent /kent, kɛnt /)
[with object] Scottish & Northern English know:
d'ye ken anyone who can boast of that?
▪ recognize; identify:
that's him—d'ye ken him?
– ORIGIN Old 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 can1 and know. Current senses of the verb date from Middle English ; the noun from the mid 16th century.