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KEEN
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Greek
Keen of hearing.
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Irish
Irish : variant spelling of Keane.English : variant spelling of Keen.
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Muslim
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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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.
Male
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Cianán, KEENAN means "little ancient one."
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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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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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Greek
Keen of hearing.
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Irish American English
Ancient.
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Hindu
Light, Keen intellect
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Muslim
Keen eyed
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Irish Celtic English
Ancient.
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Irish
Archaic.
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Tamil
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Light, Keen intellect
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Tamil
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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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English
English : variant spelling of Keen.Americanized spelling of German Kühne (see Kuehn).
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Hindu
Light, Keen intellect
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Irish
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American, Arabic, Australian, British, English, Muslim, Russian, Slavic
Wealthy Guardian; Sanctuary; Voice; Call; Born of Sunday
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Australian
Priest
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American, Australian, British, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swiss, Teutonic
Noble and Eager; Eager; Noble; Ready for Battle; Spanish Form of Alphonse; Eager for War
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Love for Victory
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Welsh
friend of the Huns'.
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Muslim
Islamic place
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Tamil
Diamond, Queen of gods
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British, English, German
From the Yard on a Hill; Hard Warrior
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Kelsall, from the Middle English personal name Kell + Old English halh ‘nook or corner of land’, or possibly from Kelshall in Hertfordshire, which is named with an Old English personal name Cylli + Old English hyll ‘hill’, or even Kelsale in Suffolk, named with an Old English personal name Cēl(i) or Cēol + Old English halh.
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Teutonic French
Battle maiden.
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superl.
Piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc, ; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen.
n.
The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
v. t.
Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
a.
Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.
v. i.
To wail as a keener does.
superl.
Eager; vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite.
n.
A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest.
a.
Of quick or keen smell.
adv.
In a keen manner.
a.
Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
superl.
Bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm.
n.
A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.
superl.
Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge.
v. t.
To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.
a.
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.
n.
Hence, something that gives or enhances a pleasant taste, or the taste itself; an appetizer; also, keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.
n.
The quality or state of being keen.
v. i.
To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.
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.
superl.
Acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness; as, a man of keen understanding; a keen look; keen features.