Kenning

//ˈkɛnɪŋ//

Synonyms for "kenning" (4 found)

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Catalan

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  • quartal noun (dry measure)

Danish

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  • kenning noun (metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry)

German

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  • Kenning noun (metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry)

Icelandic

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  • kenning noun (metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry)

Norwegian Bokmål

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  • kenning noun (metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry)
  • kjenning noun (metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry)

Old Norse

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  • kenning noun (metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry)

Polish

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  • kenning noun (metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry)

Russian

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  • ке́ннинг noun (metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry)

Swedish

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  • kenning noun (metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry)

Tagalog

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  • saalam noun (metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry)

Sample sentences

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Touching the moſt remarkeable things of the Country and our proceeding from the 17 of Auguſt 1585. till the 18. of Iune 1586. we made Roanoack our habitation. The vtmoſt of our diſcouery Southward was Secotan as we eſteemed 80. leagues from Roanoacke. The paſſage from thence was thought a broad ſound within the maine, being without kenning of land, yet full of flats and ſhoulds that our Pinnaſſe could not paſſe, […]

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And becauſe in the beginning of my Trouble, when in the midſt of the Tempeſt, I had a kenning of the Harbour, which I hope now by your Majeſty's Favour I am entring into; I made a tender to your Majeſty of two Works, a Hiſtory of England, and a Digeſt of your Laws: as I have performed a Part of the one; ſo I have herewith ſent your Majeſty, by way of an Epiſtle, a New Offer of the other.

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"Saul of my pody, put you are wrang there, my friend," answered Robin, with composure; "it is your fat Englishmen that eat up our Scots cattle, puir things." / "I wish there was a summat to eat up their drovers," said another; "a plain Englishman canna make bread without a kenning of them."

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Scylley is a Kenning, that is to ſay about an xx. Miles from the very Weſteſte Point of Cornewaulle.

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