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.

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

For this exhibition, there are no nods to Keith Haring or Jean-Michel Basquiat, widely known graffiti-adjacent artists who Mr. Ket believes are not part of the form’s true history.

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

Twenty-nine "Requests and Demands," signed by Ket, Cod, and Aldrich, were dispatched to the King from Mousehold, and this document gave in full the grievances of the rebels.

From The Rise of the Democracy by Clayton, Joseph