Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A traditional Chinese unit of length, originally the width of a person's thumb at the knuckle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To know.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Alternative form of conn (“direct or steer a ship”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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History
From Chinese 寸 (cùn). Doublet of sun.
From Middle English cunnen, connen, from Old English cunnan (“to know, know how (to)”), from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną (“to know”). Doublet of con.
See conn, cond.
