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koch

UK/kɒt͡ʃ/US/kɑt͡ʃ/

koch noun: a wooden sailing ship of Russian design for use in the Arctic.

Noun

koch (plural koches)

  1. A wooden sailing ship of Russian design for use in the Arctic.
    • The remnants of the shipwrecked koch left by Russian sailors on the Faddey Islands and their hut (winter quarters) on the shore of Simsa Bay, found by hydrographers in 1940, expanded the understanding of historians of the real practical capabilities of Russian polar explorers-sailors of the...2023 June, Elena A. Okladnikova, “The Excavations of Aleksei P. Okladnikov on the Faddey Islands in Simsa Bay (August 1945)”, in Richard Bland, transl., Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of...

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Koch

US/koʊk/UK/kəʊk/

Koch

  1. A language of Meghalaya (India), Assam, Tripura, Manipur, West Bengal, Bihar, and Bangladesh.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Koch

US/koʊk/UK/kəʊk/

Koch (plural Kochs)

  1. A surname from German.
    • It was a one-stop political and policy shop, a sort of shadow Republican Party but crafted in the libertarian molds of the Kochs and entirely controlled by them.
      That wasn’t the only thing that the Koch brothers did differently.2019 August 23, Chris Cillizza, “How the Koch brothers fundamentally changed modern politics”, in CNN

koch meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

koch in Tamil

காச்

koch in Telugu

కొచ్

koch in Malayalam

കൊച്ച്

koch in Kannada

ಕೊಚ್
More languagesFewer languages
koch in Punjabi
ਕੌਚ
koch in Nepali
कोच्च

Forms of koch

Noun
pluralkoches
Proper noun
pluralKochs

Origin of koch

Borrowed from Russian коч (koč).

Borrowed from German Koch (“cook”), an occupational surname. Doublet of Cook and Kok.

Words formed from koch

Phrases with koch

Words that rhyme with koch

42 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about koch

What does koch mean?
Koch means a wooden sailing ship of Russian design for use in the Arctic.
What is koch in Tamil?
Koch in Tamil is காச். See Koch meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is koch?
Koch can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce koch?
Koch is pronounced /kɒt͡ʃ/ (UK).
What is the plural of koch?
The plural of koch is koches.

Words near koch in the dictionary

  1. Kocaks
  2. Kocama
  3. kocay
  4. kocays
  5. Kocelj
  6. koch
  7. Koch Bihar
  8. Koch Hajo
  9. Koch snowflake
  10. Koch snowflakes
  11. Koch's bacilli

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Adapted from Wiktionary: koch (page history and authors); Koch (page history and authors); koch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); koch (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); koch (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); koch (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); koch (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); koch (Nepali, 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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