Kent

[kent]

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noun

James,1763–1847, U.S. jurist.

Rock·well

[rok-wel, -wuh l] /ˈrɒkˌwɛl, -wəl/, 1882–1971, U.S. illustrator and painter.

William,1685–1748, English painter, architect, and landscape gardener.

a county in SE England. 1442 sq. mi. (3735 sq. km).

an ancient English kingdom in SE Great Britain.

a city in NE Ohio.

a town in central Washington.

a male given name: from the Old English name of a county in England.

ken

[ken]

noun

knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception: an idea beyond one's ken.

range of sight or vision.

verb (used with object), kenned or kent, ken·ning.

Chiefly Scot.

to know, have knowledge of or about, or be acquainted with (a person or thing).
to understand or perceive (an idea or situation).

Scots Law. to acknowledge as heir; recognize by a judicial act.

Archaic. to see; descry; recognize.

British Dialect Archaic.

to declare, acknowledge, or confess (something).
to teach, direct, or guide (someone).

verb (used without object), kenned or kent, ken·ning.

British Dialect.

to have knowledge of something.
to understand.

Origin of ken

before 900; Middle English kennen to make known, see, know, Old English cennan to make known, declare; cognate with Old Norse kenna, German kennen; akin to can¹

Can be confusedken kin

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Related Words for kent

notice, recognize, appreciate, perceive, experience, see, have, learn, realize, get, read, explain, sense, tolerate, accept, fathom, master, know, grasp, follow

Examples from the Web for kent

Contemporary Examples of kent

Kent herself has said the movie is about parenting, the unsayable extremes of what mothers can feel.
Grief: The Real Monster in The Babadook
Tim Teeman
December 19, 2014
But Kent will not let us off the familiar horror hook so easily.
Grief: The Real Monster in The Babadook
Tim Teeman
December 19, 2014
Following her upbringing at Chartwell, the Churchill family home in Kent, Mary Soames, according to Emma Soames, had “a good war.”
Churchill’s Secret Treasures for Sale: A British PM’s Life on the Auction Block
Tom Teodorczuk
December 8, 2014
Comments like these are precisely the reason Kent finds, and I suspect we all find, storytelling to be invaluable.
‘The Babadook’ Is the Best (and Most Sincere) Horror Movie of the Year
Samuel Fragoso
November 30, 2014
“It's the ultimate reward that's really long-lasting,” Kent says.
‘The Babadook’ Is the Best (and Most Sincere) Horror Movie of the Year
Samuel Fragoso
November 30, 2014

Historical Examples of kent

The last volume, Kent, 1907, is entirely decorated by himself.
De Libris: Prose and Verse
Austin Dobson
He means to send for his horses immediately, and it is impossible to say when you may see him in Kent.
Lady Susan
Jane Austen
If ye had kent my Alick, ye wadna wonder at me for what I did.
Camps, Quarters and Casual Places
Archibald Forbes
Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Kent are the most rich in this respect.
English Villages
P. H. Ditchfield
Three ladies were from Detroit, and one from Kent, in England.
In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories
Robert Barr

British Dictionary definitions for kent

kent

verb

a past tense and past participle of ken

Kent

noun

a county of SE England, on the English Channel: the first part of Great Britain to be colonized by the Romans; one of the seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England until absorbed by Wessex in the 9th century ad . Apart from the Downs it is mostly low-lying and agricultural, specializing in fruit and hops. The Medway towns of Rochester and Gillingham became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Maidstone. Pop (excluding Medway): 1 348 800 (2003 est). Area (excluding Medway): 3526 sq km (1361 sq miles)

Kent

noun

William. ?1685–1748, English architect, landscape gardener, and interior designer

ken

noun

range of knowledge or perception (esp in the phrases beyond or in one's ken)

verb kens, kenning, kenned or kent (kɛnt)

Scot and Northern English dialect to know

Scot and Northern English dialect to understand; perceive

(tr) archaic to see

Word Origin for ken

Old English cennan; related to Old Norse kenna to perceive, Old High German kennen to make known; see can 1

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Word Origin and History for kent

Kent

Old English, from Latin Canticum, Greek Kantion (51 B.C.E.), an ancient Celtic name often explained as "coastal district," but possibly "land of the hosts or armies." Related: Kentish.

ken

"to know," Scottish dialect, from Old English cennan "make known, declare, acknowledge" (in late Old English also "to know"), originally "make to know," causative of cunnan "to become acquainted with, to know" (see can (v.)). Cognate with German kennen, Danish kjende, Swedish känna. Related: Kenned; kenning.

ken

n.2

"house where thieves meet," 1560s, vagabonds' slang, probably a shortening of kennel.

ken

n.1

"range of sight," 1580s, a nautical abbreviation of kenning.