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Kos   /kɑs/   Listen
Kos

noun
1.
(in India) a unit of length having different values in different localities.  Synonym: coss.





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"Kos" Quotes from Famous Books



... Upper Egypt (Apollinopolis Parva) pronounced "Goos," the Coptic Kos-Birbir, once an emporium ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton
... he ought not to come home emptyhanded, and owing his restoration to the good nature of the people, but rather to return after some glorious achievement. With this intention he at first left Samos with a few ships and cruised in the seas near Knidus and Kos; then, hearing that Mindarus, the Spartan admiral, had gone to the Hellespont with all his fleet, and that the Athenian fleet had followed him, he hurried to the assistance of ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) • Plutarch


Words linked to "Kos" :   linear unit, linear measure, coss


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