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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ken/ken/

▶noun (one's ken) one's range of knowledge or sight. ▶verb (kens, kenning; past and past part. kenned or kent) Scottish & N. English

1 know.

2 recognize; identify.

– origin OE cennan ‘tell, make known’, of Gmc origin.

'ken' also found in these Oxford entries:

dunny - kendo - kenning - kent - -kin - know - minikin

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