kono
kono noun: a traditional Maori woven basket.
Noun
kono (plural kono or konos)
- A traditional Maori woven basket.
- To others my love is a plaited kono / Full or empty […] .1972, James K. Baxter, ‘He Waiata mo Te Kare’, Selected Poems, Te Herenga Waka University Press 2023, p. 264
- His son Hector is the source image of the young boy seated on a log eating a potato from a kono […].2016, Nigel Borell, edited by Ngahiraka Mason, Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Māori Portraits, page 214
Proper noun capitalized: Kono
Kono (plural Konos)
- A surname from Japanese.
Forms of kono
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | kono |
| plural | konos |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Konos |
Origin of kono
From Māori kono.
Borrowed from Japanese 河野 (Kōno) or 高野 (Kōno).
Questions about kono
- What does kono mean?
- Kono means a traditional Maori woven basket.
- What part of speech is kono?
- Kono can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of kono?
- The plural of kono is kono.
Words near kono in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: kono (page history and authors); Kono (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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