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kós

kós is the alternative spelling of coss.

Meaning of coss

Noun

coss (plural cosses or coss)

  1. (British, India, South-Asia) A measure of distance, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.
    • […] the distances (computed by marching-time as well as by reference to the Népálese kós of 2⅓ miles each) […]1857, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal, No. XXVII: Papers Relative to the Colonization, Commerce, Physical Geography, &c., &c., of the Himalaya...

Forms of kós

pluralkósses
pluralkós

Questions about kós

What is kós the alternative spelling of?
Kós is the alternative spelling of coss.

Words near kós in the dictionary

  1. Këen-lung
  2. kësterite
  3. kësterites
  4. Kókyangwúti
  5. Kópavogur
  6. kós
  7. kósses
  8. Köbberling-Dunnigan syndrome
  9. Köchel number
  10. Köchel numbers
  11. Köhler effect

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kós (page history and authors); coss (page history and authors). 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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