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kairoi

kairoi is the plural of kairos.

Meaning of kairos

Noun

kairos (plural kairoi)

  1. A time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment.
    • The—so-called! friends—rational world. If only they, Mom&Dad&Buddy&Sis, dear-but-square ones, could but know the kairos, the supreme moment…1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 129

Questions about kairoi

What is kairoi the plural of?
Kairoi is the plural of kairos.

Words near kairoi in the dictionary

  1. kaique
  2. kaiques
  3. kairine
  4. kairines
  5. kairo cancer
  6. kairoi
  7. kairoline
  8. kairomonal
  9. kairomone
  10. kairomones
  11. kairos

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