kens

[US]/ken/
[UK]/kɛn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. range of knowledge or understanding; scope of comprehension
vt. to know, to understand
vi. to know, to understand

Phrases & Collocations

beyond my ken

within his ken

Real-world Examples

Hey, how about the time I cut the legs off your Malibu Ken?

Source: Friends Season 2

You don't need any of that because you're the Ken in the faux mink.

Source: GQ — 10 Essentials for Celebrities

'Is he to be kidnapped to the other ken, Nancy says?

Source: Oliver Twist (Original Version)

(Inaudible) The first Ken doll wasn't made until 1961, I found out.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

At this period of my life the good Watson had passed almost beyond my ken.

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: New Cases (Part Two)

How about the time I cut the legs off your Malibu Ken?

Source: Friends Season 2

" Hi Ken - Can you send through your phone number, please? Thanks so much! "

Source: Pop culture

After that, what our home, our life would be like, was utterly beyond my ken—it seemed so misty and phantom-like.

Source: Family and the World (Part 2)

Great deeds would have disappeared from out his ken together with hope of achieving them and have been succeeded by the platitude.

Source: The Red and the Black (Part One)

There's Silas Weekley, the distinguished English novelist, who lives in the lane down which Searle disappeared from human ken on Wednesday night.

Source: A handsome face.

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