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  1. keenernoun

    One who keens at a funeral.

  2. keenernoun

    Someone who is excessively keen or eager, possibly making others look bad; a brown-noser.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Keenernoun

    a professional mourner who wails at a funeral

Wikidata

  1. Keener

    Keener is a census-designated place in Sampson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 508 at the 2000 census.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. KEENER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Keener is ranked #2633 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Keener surname appeared 13,687 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 5 would have the surname Keener.

    90.2% or 12,351 total occurrences were White.
    4.1% or 569 total occurrences were Black.
    2% or 283 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.6% or 226 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.3% or 181 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.5% or 78 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of keener in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of keener in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of keener in a Sentence

  1. Washington Irving:

    Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  2. Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei:

    The AIIB needs to establish its comparative advantage relative to existing multilateral development banks like the World Bank, ...Compared with the Asian Development Bank, World Bank and other multilateral development banks, the AIIB's advantage lies in its keener understanding of the successful experience and lessons of developing countries' years of development.

  3. Washington Irving:

    A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  4. Sean O'Casey:

    What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

  5. Marquis de Sade:

    No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.

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