KENNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kenning mean? 

• KENNING (noun)
  The noun KENNING has 1 sense:

1. conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry

  Familiarity information: KENNING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KENNING (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)