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kourai

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
kourai
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

animate statues of beautiful maidens, forged out of gold by the divine smith Hephaistos, who attended the Olympian gods

Example Sentences

Etymology

Assumably from Ancient Greek κοῦραι (koûrai), if so, then it would be a doublet of korai?

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: κοῦραι

Questions

What does kourai mean?
animate statues of beautiful maidens, forged out of gold by the divine smith Hephaistos, who attended the Olympian gods
Where does kourai come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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