verb
- to know or understand
Usage: chiefly Scottish or archaic
noun
- the range of knowledge or understanding; what one knows or can see
Usage: often used in the phrase 'beyond one's ken'
Examples
- I don't ken what you mean by that.
- That subject is beyond my ken.
- She has a wide ken of classical literature.
- The ship disappeared beyond the ken of the shore.
- He kens the old traditions well.
- It's beyond the ken of most people to understand quantum physics.