Ken vs. Kin — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ken and Kin
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Ken
Perception; understanding
Complex issues well beyond our ken.
Kin
(used with a pl. verb) One's relatives or family
Visited my aunt and her kin.
Ken
Range of vision.
Kin
A relative or family member
Is she kin of yours?.
Ken
View; sight.
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Kin
(used with a pl. verb) Organisms that are genetically related to another or others
Cauliflower and its kin.
Ken
To know (a person or thing).
Kin
Related genetically or in the same family.
Ken
To recognize.
Kin
Related or similar; akin
"If he feels a wisp of longing for her ... it is kin to what the serpent must have felt for Eve" (Barbara Klein Moss).
Ken
To have knowledge or an understanding.
Kin
Race; family; breed; kind.
Ken
(obsolete) To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).
Kin
(collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
Ken
To know, perceive or understand.
Kin
One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
Ken
To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
Kin
Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
Ken
Knowledge, perception, or sight.
Kin
(fandom) A fictional character who one deeply relates to.
Ken
(nautical) Range of sight.
Kin
Someone who relates deeply to a certain fictional character.
Ken
A house, especially a den of thieves.
Kin
Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".
It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.
Ken
(Jewish) Youth or children's group.
Kin
To identify with; as in empathize or emotionally relate to a fictional character.
Ken
A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus
Kin
A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
Ken
The tsurugi
Kin
Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
Ken
A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves.
Kin
Relatives; persons of the same family or race.
The father, mother, and the kin beside.
You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons.
Ken
Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.
Above the reach and ken of a mortal apprehension.
It was relief to quit the kenAnd the inquiring looks of men.
Kin
The unit velocity in the C. G. S. system - a velocity of one centimeter per second.
Ken
To know; to understand; to take cognizance of.
Kin
Of the same nature or kind; kinder.
Ken
To recognize; to descry; to discern.
'T is he. I ken the manner of his gait.
Kin
A person having kinship with another or others;
He's kin
He's family
Ken
To look around.
Kin
Group of people related by blood or marriage
Ken
Range of what one can know or understand;
Beyond my ken
Kin
Related by blood
Ken
The range of vision;
Out of sight of land
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