What is the name meaning of KEEN. Phrases containing KEEN
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KEEN
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Southern Irish
Southern Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Catháin ‘descendant of Cathán’, a personal name from a diminutive of cath ‘battle’. Compare Kane.Irish : occasionally an Anglicized form of Ó Céin ‘descendant of Cian’, a personal name meaning ‘distant’, ‘long’.English : variant spelling of Keen.Americanized spelling of German Kühn(e) (see Kuehn).
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Muslim
Keen eyed
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Muslim
Keen
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Greek
Keen of hearing.
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English
English : variant spelling of Keen.Americanized spelling of German Kühne (see Kuehn).
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Greek
Keen of hearing.
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Irish American English
Ancient.
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Hindu
Light, Keen intellect
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English
English : from Old English bÄr ‘boar’, hence probably a nickname for a keen hunter of wild boar or for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way.Variant spelling of Boer.
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Tamil
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Light, Keen intellect
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Irish
Irish : variant spelling of Keane.English : variant spelling of Keen.
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English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : nickname for a keen hunter of foxes, from Northern Middle English tod(de) ‘fox’ + Middle English hunter(e) (see Hunter).
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Irish
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English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Cianán, KEENAN means "little ancient one."
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Tamil
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Light, Keen intellect
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Irish
Archaic.
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English
English : from Kene, a short form of the Old English personal name Cēn or Cyne, based on Old English cēne ‘wise’, ‘brave’, ‘proud’.Americanized spelling of German Kühn (see Kuehn).Robert Keayne (d. 1655) was one of the founders of Boston MA, and is buried in the King’s Chapel Burying Ground there.
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Hindu
Light, Keen intellect
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Irish Celtic English
Ancient.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English scharp ‘keen’, ‘active’, ‘quick’.Irish (County Donegal) : Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Géaráin ‘descendant of Géarán’, a byname from a diminutive of géar ‘sharp’.Americanized form of any of several European names with similar meaning, for example German Scharf.
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n.
Hence, something that gives or enhances a pleasant taste, or the taste itself; an appetizer; also, keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.
superl.
Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge.
superl.
Bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm.
v. t.
Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
n.
The quality or state of being keen.
a.
Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
superl.
Eager; vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite.
v. i.
To wail as a keener does.
superl.
Piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc, ; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen.
n.
A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest.
v. t.
To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.
v. i.
To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.
n.
The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
adv.
In a keen manner.
superl.
Acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness; as, a man of keen understanding; a keen look; keen features.
a.
Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.
n.
A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.
a.
Of quick or keen smell.
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Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious man; a sagacious remark.
a.
A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.