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kor

kor is the alternative form of cor.

Meaning of cor

Noun

cor (plural cors)

  1. (historical) A Hebrew unit of liquid volume, about equal to 230 L or 60 gallons.
  2. (historical) Synonym of homer: approximately the same volume as a dry measure.
    Synonyms:
    homer
  3. (historical) A roughly equivalent Phoenician unit of volume.

See all 8 meanings of cor

Proper noun (1) capitalized: KOR

KOR

  1. (abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of The Komitet Obrony Robotników (Workers' Defence Committee), a Polish workers' committee which preceded the Solidarity movement.
    • Our young friends in the KOR invited us for a Christmas Eve feast in a cold but cheery apartment.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 191

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Kor

Kor (plural Kors)

  1. A surname.

Forms of kor

Noun
pluralkors
Proper noun
pluralKors

Origin of kor

From Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).

* As a Scottish surname, variant of Caw, shortened from McCaw. * As a German surname, possibly altered from Kohr, from a short form of Konrad, or from Kur, occupational surname from Middle High German kur (“official inspector”) (see modern Kurier (“messenger, courier”)). * As a Dutch surname, from Gronings dialect kor (“wheelbarrow, hand-truck”). * As a Polish surname, possibly a variant of several places derived from góra (“mountain”). * As a Chinese surname, Romanized from 高 (gāo) (see Gao) or 高 (gāo) (see Xu).

Questions about kor

What does kor mean?
Kor means a surname.
What is kor the alternative form of?
Kor is the alternative form of cor.
What part of speech is kor?
Kor is a proper noun.

Words near kor in the dictionary

  1. Koputaroa
  2. kopuz
  3. kopuzes
  4. Kopychyntsi
  5. Koqand
  6. kor
  7. kor kor
  8. kora
  9. kora-kora
  10. kora-koras
  11. koracan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kor (page history and authors); KOR (page history and authors); Kor (page history and authors); cor (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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