kent








< /ˈrɒkˌwɛl, -wəl/, 1882–1971, U.S. illustrator and painter.

  • William,1685–1748, English painter, architect, and landscape gardener.
  • a county in SE England. 1442 sq. mi. (3735 sq. km).
  • an ancient English kingdom in SE Great Britain.
  • a city in NE Ohio.
  • a town in central Washington.
  • a male given name: from the Old English name of a county in England.
  • noun

    1. knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception: an idea beyond one’s ken.
    2. range of sight or vision.

    verb (used with object), kenned or kent, ken·ning.

    1. Chiefly Scot.
      1. to know, have knowledge of or about, or be acquainted with (a person or thing).
      2. to understand or perceive (an idea or situation).
    2. Scots Law. to acknowledge as heir; recognize by a judicial act.
    3. Archaic. to see; descry; recognize.
    4. British Dialect Archaic.
      1. to declare, acknowledge, or confess (something).
      2. to teach, direct, or guide (someone).

    verb (used without object), kenned or kent, ken·ning.

    1. British Dialect.
      1. to have knowledge of something.
      2. to understand.

    verb

    1. a past tense and past participle of ken

    noun

    1. a county of SE England, on the English Channel: the first part of Great Britain to be colonized by the Romans; one of the seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England until absorbed by Wessex in the 9th century ad . Apart from the Downs it is mostly low-lying and agricultural, specializing in fruit and hops. The Medway towns of Rochester and Gillingham became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Maidstone. Pop (excluding Medway): 1 348 800 (2003 est). Area (excluding Medway): 3526 sq km (1361 sq miles)

    noun

    1. William. ?1685–1748, English architect, landscape gardener, and interior designer

    noun

    1. range of knowledge or perception (esp in the phrases beyond or in one’s ken)

    verb kens, kenning, kenned or kent (kɛnt)

    1. Scot and Northern English dialect to know
    2. Scot and Northern English dialect to understand; perceive
    3. (tr) archaic to see

    Old English, from Latin Canticum, Greek Kantion (51 B.C.E.), an ancient Celtic name often explained as “coastal district,” but possibly “land of the hosts or armies.” Related: Kentish.

    v.

    “to know,” Scottish dialect, from Old English cennan “make known, declare, acknowledge” (in late Old English also “to know”), originally “make to know,” causative of cunnan “to become acquainted with, to know” (see can (v.)). Cognate with German kennen, Danish kjende, Swedish känna. Related: Kenned; kenning.

    n.2

    “house where thieves meet,” 1560s, vagabonds’ slang, probably a shortening of kennel.

    n.1

    “range of sight,” 1580s, a nautical abbreviation of kenning.

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