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Marie-Kondo

Marie-Kondo is the alternative form of Kondo.

Meaning of Kondo

Verb

Kondo (third-person singular simple present Kondos, present participle Kondoing or Kondo-ing, simple past and past participle Kondoed or Kondo'd or Kondo-ed)

  1. (transitive) To tidy up using the methods advocated by Marie Kondo, especially keeping only those things that tokimeku (spark joy).
    • Waiting for kettle to boil … So I Kondoed my recipe books2015 February 26, Jennifer Maloney, Megumi Fujikawa, “Marie Kondo and the Cult of Tidying Up”, in The Wall Street Journal

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Forms of Marie-Kondo

third-person singular presentMarie-Kondoes
third-person singular presentMarie-Kondos
third-person singular presentMarie-Kondo's
present participleMarie-Kondo-ing
present participleMarie-Kondoing
present participleMarie-Kondo'ing
past participleMarie-Kondo'd
pastMarie-Kondo'd
past participleMarie-Kondo-ed
pastMarie-Kondo-ed
past participleMarie-Kondoed
pastMarie-Kondoed
past participleMarie-Kondo'ed
pastMarie-Kondo'ed

Questions about Marie-Kondo

What is Marie-Kondo the alternative form of?
Marie-Kondo is the alternative form of Kondo.

Words near Marie-Kondo in the dictionary

  1. Marie Valence Hall
  2. Marie's disease
  3. Marie-Foix syndrome
  4. Marie-Foix-Alajouanine syndrome
  5. Marie-Galante
  6. Marie-Kondo
  7. Mariehamn
  8. Mariel
  9. Mariela
  10. Mariele
  11. Marielito

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Marie-Kondo (page history and authors); Kondo (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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