Word info

Kenneth

Proper noun

Meaning

A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, originally used in Scotland, popular in all English-speaking countries in the 20th century.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form. Randall Jarrell

As to a pseudonym, a name I always use when tramping etc is P. S. Burton, but if you don't think this sounds a probable kind of name, what about Kenneth Miles, George Orwell, H. Lewis Allways. I rather favour George Orwell. George Orwell

I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training. June Squibb

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth. Peter Straub

John Kenneth Galbraith doesn't get enough praise. The Affluent Society is a great insight, and has become so much a part of our understanding of contemporary capitalism that we forget where it began. It's like reading Hamlet and deciding it's full of quotations. Amartya Sen

Scott, as you and I both know, a popular move these days is to make a titillating charge and then have the media create the frenzy. Given Kenneth Starr's track record, should we suspect that he's trying to do with innuendo that which he has been unable to do with evidence? Bryant Gumbel

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