karass
karass noun: a network or group of people who are somehow affiliated or linked spiritually.
Noun
karass (plural karasses)
- A network or group of people who are somehow affiliated or linked spiritually.
- We Bokononists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon […]1963, Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
- I do want to go to Arlinghurst, even though it's moronic and awful and there's no privacy at all, because I have started to build my karass there. I have the book club,I have the library—both libraries.2012, Jo Walton, Among Others, →ISBN
Examples of karass in a sentence
- Like all complex systems of this type, each “karass” has its own history (see Chapter 1, 1.2).2013, Felix Lebed, Michael Bar-Eli, Complexity and Control in Team Sports: Dialectics in Contesting Human Systems, Routledge, →ISBN, page...
- I think you may be the only good person in the whole karass.2015, Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up, →ISBN, page 276:
Forms of karass
| plural | karasses |
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Origin of karass
Coined by American writer Kurt Vonnegut in 1963, in the novel Cat's Cradle.
Questions about karass
- What does karass mean?
- Karass means a network or group of people who are somehow affiliated or linked spiritually.
- How do you use karass in a sentence?
- Like all complex systems of this type, each “karass” has its own history (see Chapter 1, 1.2).
- What part of speech is karass?
- Karass is a noun.
- What is the plural of karass?
- The plural of karass is karasses.
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