Kos

Definition: Kos

Kos

Noun

1. An Indian unit of length having different values in different localities.

Date "kos" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references)

"Kos" is a common misspelling or typo for: coos, cops, kiosk, kiss.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Kos

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
KOS	English	Kent On-line System	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Specialty Definition: Kos

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Kos or Cos (Gr Kòs) is a Greek island in the Dodecanese group of islands, in the Aegean Sea. It measures 25 miles (40km) by 5 miles (8km) and is closer to mainland Turkey than it is to Greece. The island has both fertile plains and infertile highlands. Population: 20,500.

The island boasts long sandy beaches with large hotels and secluded villages, leading to its main industry being tourism. Farming is the principal occupation of many of the island's inhabitants, with their main crops being grapes, almonds, figs, olives, tomatoes and lettuce, along with wheat and corn.

The main port and population centre on the island, also called Kos, is also the tourist and cultural centre, with whitewashed buildings including many hotels, restaurants and a small number of nightclubs. The town has a 14th century fortress at the entrance to its harbour, erected in 1315 by The Knights of Saint John of Rhodes. The ancient physician Hippocrates is thought to have been born on Kos, and just outside the town is the Plane Tree of Hippocrates, where the physician is traditionally supposed to have taught. The town also has the International Hippocratic Institute and the Hippocratic Museum dedicated to him.

The island was originally colonised by the Kares who were invaded by the Dorinians in the 11th century BC, who developed into what became known as the Athenian Federation, expelling the Persians twice. In 366 BC the town of Kos was built, then soon after the island became a part of the Roman Empire, then the Byzantine empire. A few hundred years later, the island was conquered by the Venetians, who then sold it to The Knights of Saint John of Rhodes. Two hundred years later the Knights faced the threat of a Turkish invasion, and so abandoned the island. The Turks then ruled Kos for 400 years until it was handed over to the Italians in 1912. In World War II, the island was taken over by Germany, until 1945, when it became a protectorate of Great Britain, who ceded it to Greece in 1947.

Cos is also a commune in the Ariège ''département in France.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Kos."

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Synonym: Kos

Synonym: coss (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Kos

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Length	Line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain, link; arpent, handbreadth, jornada, kos, vara.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Kos

Non-English Usage: "Kos" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (cost, food, nourishment), Albanian (clabber, tyre, yoghurt), Czech (blackbird, ouzel), Hungarian (Aries, buck, ram, tup), Papiamen (affair, article, business, business deal, case, matter, object, thing), Serbo-Croatian (awry, bevel, lop-sided, oblique, ousel, ouzel, skew, slant, slantindicular, slanting, slantwise, sloping, traverse), Slovene (Kos).

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Modern Usage: Kos

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Prípad Barnabás Kos (1964)

Potrazi Vandu Kos (1957)

Kos - To kinigi ton paranomon (1986)

Ur en kos dagbok (1985)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Kos

Domain	Title
References	Kos Pharmaceuticals Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	A Western Doctor's Odyssey: From Cariboo to Kos (reference) Diatoms in Samos, a Greek Island in the Aegean. Diatoms in Kos and Kalymnos, Two Greek Islands (Bibliotheca Diatomologica, 10) (reference) Health Impacts of Waste Management Policies: Proceedings of the Seminar 'Health Impacts of Waste Policies', Hippocrates Foundaation, Kos, Greece, 12- (reference) History of Nephrology 2: Reports from the First Congress on the International Association for the History of Nephrology, Kos, October 1996 (American) (reference) Kos I Kupeen (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Kos

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Greece	According to official sources, a total of 287 mosques operate freely in Thrace, and there are also mosques on the islands of Rhodes and Kos. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Kos

"Kos" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 51.79% of the time. "Kos" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	51.79%	29	64,444
Noun (plural)	48.21%	27	66,962
Total	100.00%	56	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Kos

The following table summarizes the usage of "kos" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Kos	Last name	400	20,155
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Kos

Country	Name
USA	Kos Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Kos

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
kos greece	1,166	kir kos	10
kos	717	irani kos	10
kos hotel	95	kos weather	10
kos pharmaceutical	87	2002 kos	9
kos island	84	cheap flight kos	9
daily kos	45	iran kos	9
kos mos xenosaga	24	kos mos nude	8
kos mos	24	kos mos pic	8
hentai kos mos	24	kos nightlife	8
kos town	22	kos photo	8
kos party	21	kos griekenland	7
kos island hotel	17	kos pharma	7
atlantis kos	17	kos usa	7
kos map	16	kos vakantie	7
hotel in kos	16	kos picture	7
holiday kos	15	beach kos	7
kos island greece	15	jpg kos	6
flight kos	14	kos mos wallpaper	6
bilder kos	13	kos last minute	6
holiday in kos	11	grekland kos	6
		janice kos	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Kos

Language		Translations for "kos"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Slovene		kos. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Kos

Derivations
	Words beginning with "kos": kosher, koshered, koshering, koshers, koss. (additional references)
	Words ending with "kos": askos, buckos, bunkos, chechakos, cheechakos, dekkos, geckos, irokos, jockos, makos, pachinkos, pinkos, shackos, shakos, sickos, wackos, whackos. (additional references)
	Words containing "kos": arkose, arkoses, arkosic, leukoses, leukosis, nonkosher, skosh, skoshes, unkosher. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Kos"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "kos" (pronounced kÄ"s)
2	-Ä" s	Abbas, Bos, Crosse, floss, Foss, Fosse, hahs, Las, Os, semigloss.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Kos

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "k-o-s"
	-1 letter: os, so.
	Words containing the letters "k-o-s"
	+1 letter: bosk, koas, kobs, kois, kops, kors, koss, mosk, oaks, okas, okes, soak, sock, soke, sook, souk, woks, yoks.
	+2 letters: amoks, askoi, askos, bocks, bonks, books, bosks, bosky, cocks, cokes, conks, cooks, corks, docks, dorks, folks, forks, gooks, gowks, hocks, hokes, holks, honks, hooks, howks, ikons, jocks, jokes, jouks, kaons, kayos, kenos, kilos, kinos, kiosk, knobs, knops, knosp, knots, knows, koans, kobos, koels, kohls, kolas, kolos, konks, kooks, kophs, kotos, kudos, kusso, locks, looks, makos, mocks, mokes, monks, mosks, nocks, nooks, oinks, okays, okehs, okras, pocks, pokes, porks, rocks, rooks, shako, shock, shook, sicko, skimo, skoal, skosh, smock, smoke, smoky, snook, soaks, socko, socks, sokes, sokol, sooks, souks, spoke, spook, stock, stoke, stook, stork, tokes, torsk, wonks, works, yocks, yokes, yolks, zonks, zooks.
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