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Meanings of kos in English
Ancient unit of distance from the Indian subcontinent.
Related terms
A Greek island, part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea, off the Anatolian coast of Turkey.
Synonyms
Examples for "cos"
Examples for "cos"
1
The teacher plays with me cos the other boys are so big.
2
I know she looked, 'cos she couldn't quite meet my eye afterwards.
3
Everybody's afraid to say something 'cos you're going to hurt someone's feelings.
4
It's very deceiving, field sobriety test, cos it's very easy at first.
5
Yes, cos only in LA does common courtesy have to be legislated.
Usage of kos in English
1
For further particulars respecting the modes of catching the eu-kod-kos, vide vol.
2
In some places the beds of saffron-flowers extend to a kos.
3
In our reckoning it is twenty kos and one kos is three kilometers.
4
One of the best parts about being South Africa is undeniably our kief kos.
5
Dē mod' o kos- abardat the court of Alkinoös.
6
My horse lies dead one kos from Hanadra here!
7
About five kos off, we called a halt for breakfast, and reached Tusgam about four P.M.
8
Arriving at Sankoo, we found it a well-wooded thinly-inhabited valley, about a kos and a half in length.
9
About three kos from Sirinugger, we stopped at another very extensive site of Cyclopeian ruins, at a place called Pandreton.
10
A kos too, which ought to be from one and a half to two miles, means here anything between one mile and seven.
11
From the summit of this pass we descended about three kos to Lamieroo, without passing a single hut or village on the entire road.
12
During the lifetime of my father (Akbar) I went twice to this fountain, which is about twenty kos from the city of Cashmere.
13
The Intelligence officer had barely got outside when a tall and even good-looking native attracted his attention by raising his battered hat and murmuring "kos."
14
It was 13 kos (26 miles) long by 18 miles wide, an area of 468 square miles, but a trifle in Indian History.
15
There are two Athens-to-Kos flights per day; roundtrip is about 150 Euros.
16
They will meet police and coast guard officials on Kos on Friday.