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  • Ket
    Ket
    noun
    a member of an Indigenous people of central Siberia, living in widely dispersed communities on tributaries of the Yenisei River, between 60° and 67° N latitude.
  • ket-
    ket-
    variant of keto- before a vowel.

Ket

1 American  
[ket] / kɛt /

noun

  • Kets,
    plural
  • Ket
    plural
  1. a member of an Indigenous people of central Siberia, living in widely dispersed communities on tributaries of the Yenisei River, between 60° and 67° N latitude.

  2. the Yeniseian language of the Ket, related only to several now extinct languages of the upper Yenisei.


ket- 2 American  
  1. variant of keto- before a vowel.

    ketene.


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Etymology

Origin of Ket

From Russian, from Ket: Ket, “man, human being”

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A 10th suspect was accused of sending them to Preah Ket Mealea Hospital in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, for kidney transplant surgery.

From Seattle Times Jul. 25, 2023

He held a placard with the slogan "Shal Ket" which means "old man out" - a reference to Nursultan Nazarbayev, 81, Kazakhstan's paramount leader since Soviet times.

From Reuters Jan. 6, 2022

“We have to be our own authorities,” Mr. Ket, who is the museum’s co-founder, said.

From New York Times Dec. 4, 2019

On Dec. 6, the day after Caras said she was fired, she said the company’s human resources representative, Ket Raxajak, called her and asked if she was planning to come to work.

From Washington Post Mar. 19, 2018

Released from his bonds, Ket Bogha paced furiously back and forth before Qutuz.

From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Robert Shea

But among the Soyot and Tofalar, near Lake Baikal, only a few dozen remain; and among the Kets in the Yenisei River Basin and the Negidal on the Sea of Okhotsk, almost none at all.

From New York Times Nov. 9, 2020

“Charisma and narcissism can get confused very easily,” Kets de Vries points out.

From Forbes Jan. 30, 2015

Careful there…you could very well be what management professor Manfred Kets DeVries calls a “Seductive Operational Bully.”

From Forbes Jan. 30, 2015

Kets de Vries proposes a checklist: Is the candidate glib and charming?

From Forbes Jan. 30, 2015

Capri–X 2012 In 2010, Peter Van Kets rowed solo across the Atlantic.

From New York Times Dec. 30, 2011

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