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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.


Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


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

Given the museum’s focus on the founding generations, “you’re gonna learn about artists that have no fine art career, like zero,” Mr. Ket said, noting that there might be a ripple effect.

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

Gaulish princess, wife of King Ugainy the Great, 152; grandmother of Maon, 153 Ket.

From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

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

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

From Forbes ● Jan. 30, 2015

Kets de Vries claims as many as 3.9% of corporate professionals have what could be described as “psychopathic tendencies.”

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

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

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2011

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