kouros

[ koor-os ]

noun

, Greek Antiquity.

, plural kou·roi [koor, -oi].

1. a sculptured representation of a young man, especially one produced prior to the 5th century b.c.

Word History and Origins

Origin of kouros¹

1915–20; < Greek koûros, dialectal variant of kóros boy; kore

Example Sentences

Senior diplomat Kyriakos Kouros said a protest was filed by an ambassador of an unnamed Arab state on Saturday after tourists were targeted.

From Reuters

"They cut short their visit. I doubt they will ever return," Kouros, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wrote on the social media platform X on Sunday, posting a picture of the departure of a group at an airport.

From Reuters

Senior diplomat Kyriakos Kouros said a protest was filed by an ambassador of an unnamed Arab state on Saturday after tourists were targeted.

From Reuters

"They cut short their visit. I doubt they will ever return," Kouros, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wrote on the social media platform X on Sunday, posting a picture of the departure of a group at an airport.

From Reuters

He singles out art that speaks to different concepts of time — the work of the Egyptians, with their “neheh,” whose essence was a circle; a Titian portrait of a young man in which “time appears to have pooled instead of frozen, as if past and future are subsumed by the vital present”; a Greek statue called the New York kouros that Bringley feels especially connected to “as a fellow transplant, and as one who also stands in the museum day after day.”

From Washington Post