cos
UK/kɒs//kɑs/
cos noun: synonym of romaine lettuce, a long-leaved variety of lettuce. Also the informal spelling of 'cause.
Noun (1)
cos (plural coses)
- Synonym of romaine lettuce, a long-leaved variety of lettuce.
- Synonyms:
- romaine lettuce
Determiner
cos
- Belonging to co. Gender-neutral possessive determiner, grammatically equivalent to the gendered his and her and the singular their.
- Psychiatrists are trained to try to impose the responsibility for a patient’s problem on the patient coself, rather than on cos environment.1973, Michael Glenn, Richard Kunnes, Repression or Revolution?: Therapy in the United States Today, Harper Colophon Books, →ISBN, page 53
- WHEREAS a child’s sexuality is just as much a part of cos whole person from birth as the blood that flows in cos veins, making cos sexual rights inherent and inalienable […]1975, Valida Davila, “A Child’s Sexual Bill of Rights”, in Bernhardt J. Hurwood, editor, The Whole Sex Catalogue, New York, N.Y.: Pinnacle Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 287
Noun (2)
cos (uncountable)
- Cosmetology.
- Miss Julie's School of Beauty is a startup, nonprofit cosmetology school based in Rochester designed to empower those at risk and survivors of human trafficking through vocational training. ¶ "The thing is we are not just another cosmetology school," Chapus said. "We are not a for-profit cos school...2023 July 19, Wendy Wright, quoting Julie Chapus, “Rochester woman helping trafficking survivors start over with cosmetology”, in Spectrum News, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2023
Proper noun (1) capitalized: CoS
CoS
- Initialism of Chamber of Secrets.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Cos
Cos
Also used as
cos is also the informal spelling of 'cause.
cos is also the alternative form of coz.
cos is also the plural of co.
cos is also the alternative form of coss.
cos meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
cos in Hindi
- कॉस, सी. ओ. एस
cos in Tamil
- சிஓஎஸ்
cos in Marathi
- कॉस
cos in Urdu
- سی او ایس
More languagesFewer languages
- cos in Bengali
- সি. ও. এস
- cos in Telugu
- కాస్, సిఓఎస్
- cos in Malayalam
- സി. ഒ. എസ്
- cos in Kannada
- ಕಾಸ್, ಸಿ. ಓ. ಎಸ್, ಸಿಒಎಸ್
- cos in Odia
- ସି. ଓ. ଏସ୍, ସି. ଓ. ଏସ
Examples of cos in a sentence
- Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks beyond the point of having made satisfactory arrangements with the Community with regard to cos absence.1986, Ingrid Komar, Living the Dream: Twin Oaks Community 1979-1982, Louisa, Va.: Twin Oaks Community, →OCLC, page 355:
- "We are not a for-profit cos school where everybody and anybody can come to.2023 July 19, Wendy Wright, quoting Julie Chapus, “Rochester woman helping trafficking survivors start over with cosmetology”, in Spectrum...
Synonyms of cos
Forms of cos
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | coses |
| plural | cosses |
| plural | cos |
| Determiner | |
| alternative form | co's |
Origin of cos
Clipping of cos lettuce, variously derived from the Greek island of Kos and from Arabic خس (ḵass, “lettuce”).
Clipping of cousin.
From co + -s.
Words formed from cos
Phrases with cos
Words that rhyme with cos
Questions about cos
- What does cos mean?
- Cos means synonym of romaine lettuce, a long-leaved variety of lettuce.
- What is cos in Hindi?
- Cos in Hindi is कॉस, सी. ओ. एस. See Cos meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use cos in a sentence?
- Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks beyond the point of having made satisfactory arrangements with the Community with regard to cos absence.
- What part of speech is cos?
- Cos can be a noun, a determiner or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cos?
- Cos is pronounced /kɑs/ (US).
- What is the plural of cos?
- The plural of cos is coses.
Words near cos in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cos (page history and authors); CoS (page history and authors); Cos (page history and authors); cos (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cos (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cos (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cos (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cos (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cos (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cos (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cos (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cos (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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