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Word entry · 3 letters

ken

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"Scottish name"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /kɛn/Part of speech nounSorted eknStarts with KEnds with N2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the range of vision

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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?

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Scottish name3 letters
02Range of knowledge3 letters

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