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KENNING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("kenning" is a kind of...):
figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb ken
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