Comus

or Ko·mos

[ koh-muhs ]

noun

1. an ancient Greek and Roman god of drinking and revelry.

Comus

/ ˈkəʊməs /

noun

1. (in late Roman mythology) a god of revelry

Word History and Origins

Origin of Comus¹

< Latin < Greek kômos revel; akin to comedy

Word History and Origins

Origin of Comus¹

C17: from Latin, from Greek kōmos a revel

Example Sentences

I turned off Comus Road and into the cemetery, past the upright stone grave markers, themselves adorned with smooth round rocks stacked by mourners.

From Washington Post

Mr. Smith, a resident of Comus, Md., was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, and moved with his family to Santa Cruz, Calif., in the late 1940s.

From Washington Post

Beyond the beach, one of the ways they did so was by joining national organizations like the Comus Social Club or the Guardsmen — or, for the children, Jack and Jill of America — which allowed rich Black families across the country to get to know one another, whether on winter ski weekends or group trips to Panama.

From New York Times

Hans Huitz, a 51-year-old auto mechanic who had no apparent criminal history, was wanted on warrants charging him with first-degree murder and robbery in the March 1992 killing of James Essel, the 57-year-old owner of Sugarloaf Mountain Market in Comus, Maryland.

From Washington Times

Marginalia can record boredom, distraction, and mental drift, or even the refusal to read: in my used copy of John Milton’s “Comus,” the text is covered in elaborate calligraphic “Z”s, to denote snoring.

From The New Yorker