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kouroi

/ˈkuːɹɔɪ/

kouroi is the plural of kouros.

Meaning of kouros

Noun

kouros (plural kouroi)

  1. A sculpture of a naked youth in Ancient Greece, the male equivalent of a kore.
    • A redstone kouros from Sounion, this strapping young Amsterdammer, translated into the slenderer grace of the modern graminivore.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!

Questions about kouroi

What is kouroi the plural of?
Kouroi is the plural of kouros.
How do you pronounce kouroi?
Kouroi is pronounced /ˈkuːɹɔɪ/.

Words near kouroi in the dictionary

  1. kourbashed
  2. kourbashes
  3. kourbashing
  4. Kouri
  5. Kouris
  6. kouroi
  7. kouros
  8. kourotrophic
  9. kourotrophoi
  10. kourotrophos
  11. Kourou

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kouroi (page history and authors); kouros (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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