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kas

kas noun: a kind of large cupboard or wardrobe of Dutch origin, popular in the Netherlands and America in the 17th and 18th centuries. Also the plural of ka.

Noun (1)

kas (plural kases)

  1. A kind of large cupboard or wardrobe of Dutch origin, popular in the Netherlands and America in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Noun (2) capitalized: KAs

KAs

  1. (plural) plural of KA

Also used as

kas is also the plural of ka.

Forms of kas

pluralkases
alternative formkaas

Origin of kas

Borrowed from Dutch kas (“cupboard, chest, case”), from Middle Dutch kasse, casse, from Old French casse, from Latin capsa (“box, chest, case”).

Questions about kas

What does kas mean?
Kas means a kind of large cupboard or wardrobe of Dutch origin, popular in the Netherlands and America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
What part of speech is kas?
Kas is a noun.
What is the plural of kas?
The plural of kas is kases.

Words near kas in the dictionary

  1. karzeys
  2. karzi
  3. karzies
  4. karzis
  5. karzy
  6. kas
  7. KASA
  8. Kasabach-Merritt syndrome
  9. Kasabian
  10. Kasack
  11. Kasacks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kas (page history and authors); KAs (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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