English edit

Etymology edit

From ken (knowledge, understanding).

Prepositional phrase edit

beyond one's ken

  1. Beyond one's knowledge or understanding.
    • 2011 January 6, David Carr, “Marshall McLuhan: Media Savant”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      Much of what McLuhan wrote and some of what Coupland relates are beyond my ken, but I don’t know about that “hole in heaven” stuff.