Ket

¹ American  

[ket] / kɛt /

noun

plural

Kets,

plural

Ket

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.

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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”

Example Sentences

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

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“I want this race to be based on who has the best ideas,” he said in the recent KET debate.

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The cafe in the Seattle Art Museum, an outpost of the popular MAR•KET seafood shack in Edmonds, debuted to practically a ghost town in 2021.

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But MAR•KET made its name on seafood rolls.

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“There may be times when there’s nothing pressing on the front end of a session, where we don’t necessarily need to go in for an extended period of time,” House Speaker David Osborne said on KET.

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