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Definition of "kouros" []

  • A sculpture representing a standing nude young man, especially one produced in Greece before the fifth century B.C. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "kouros" in a sentence
  • "It would be amazing if Gigerenzer's German pedestrians were calling faults with something approaching Braden's accuracy, or knowing — not guessing — that the kouros was a fake."
  • "Ask Thomas Hoving how he knew, instantly, that the kouros was a fake, though, and he won't exactly be able to say. ["
  • "In the mid-1980s, the Getty Museum paid $7 million for a kouros, a small Greek sculpture, after extensive scientific testing determined the marble had come from a Greek quarry hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago."