Usually means: Range of knowledge or perception.
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  1. ken: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ken: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Ken, ken: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Ken, ken: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ken: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ken, ken: Wordnik
  7. ken: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ken, ken: Wiktionary
  9. ken: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ken: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ken: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. KEN, Ken: Dictionary.com
  13. ken (n.), ken (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Ken (Barbie), Ken (Star Wars), Ken (Street Fighter), Ken (Toy Story), Ken (album), Ken (architecture), Ken (disambiguation), Ken (doll), Ken (film), Ken (given name), Ken (magazine), Ken (musician), Ken (singer), Ken (unit), Ken, The Ken: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ken: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ken: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ken: Rhymezone
  18. ken: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ken: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. ken: Free Dictionary
  21. ken: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Ken, ken: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ken-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ken: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ken: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. ken: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. KEN: Acronym Finder
  3. KEN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. ken: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ken, ken, ken, Ken: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ken: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. ken: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Ken)

verb:  (obsolete) To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).
verb:  (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To know, perceive or understand.
verb:  (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
noun:  Knowledge, perception, or sight.
noun:  (nautical) Range of sight.
noun:  (slang, UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A house, especially a den of thieves.
noun:  (Judaism) Youth or children's group.
noun:  A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus.
noun:  The tsurugi (type of sword).
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Kenneth.
noun:  (colloquial, in combination) Kensington in London.
noun:  A surname.

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