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PRONUNCIATION OF KOUROI

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KOUROI

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Kouroi is a noun.
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WHAT DOES KOUROI MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kouros

A kouros is the modern term given to free-standing ancient Greek sculptures which first appear in the Archaic period in Greece,and represent naked male youths. In Ancient Greek kouros means youth, boy, especially of noble rank. The term kouros, was first proposed for what were previously thought to be depictions of Apollo by V. I. Leonardos in 1895 in relation to the youth from Keratea, and adopted by Lechat as a generic term for the standing male figure in 1904. Such statues are found across the Greek-speaking world, the preponderance of these were found in sanctuaries of Apollo with more than one hundred from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios, Boeotia, alone. These free-standing sculptures were typically marble, but also the form is rendered in limestone, wood, bronze, ivory and terracotta. They are typically life-sized, though early colossal examples are up to 3 meters tall. The female sculptural counterpart of the 'kouros is the kore.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KOUROI

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kotuku
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koulibiaca
koumis
koumiss
koumyss
kouprey
koura
kouros
Kourou
kousso
Kovno
Kovrov
Kowaiti
Koweit
Koweiti
kowhai
kowhaiwhai

WORDS THAT END LIKE KOUROI

boi
Charleroi
envoi
Hanoi
je ne sais quoi
Kamilaroi
koi
Melanochroi
mesonephroi
metanephroi
monopteroi
mooi
naoi
octroi
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pak choi
poi
pronephroi
renvoi
topoi

Synonyms and antonyms of kouroi in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «kouroi» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

kouroi
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kouroi
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Translator English - Hindi

kouroi
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kouroi
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kouroi
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Kouroi
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Translator English - German

Kuroi
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kouroi
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kouroi
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Kouroi
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kouroi
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कुरोई
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kouroi
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kouroi
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Kouroi
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kouroi
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kouroi
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Translator English - Greek

κούροι
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kouroi
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Trends of use of kouroi

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KOUROI»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KOUROI» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kouroi

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KOUROI»

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Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece
Nothing illustrates this fact better than the nude male statues called kouroi. It cannot be determined exactly when the Greeks first sculpted kouroi or where. No life-sized Greek kouroi exist prior to the one dated 610 at the Metropolitan Museum ...
William A. Percy, 1998
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The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B.C.
The Naxians liked their kouroi slender, relatively flat, and elegantly contoured, with sharply patterned anatomy. The Samians liked theirs massive and muscular, with soft anatomical transitions and spherical heads (they liked their korai ...
Jeffrey M. Hurwit, 1987
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Bulletin - Museums of Art and Archaeology, University of ...
Kouroi, no. 1 16; Pedley, Workshops, 39, no. 24, pis. 16, 17. 32. Tenea kouros, Kouroi, no. 73; nor is the kouros at the Getty Museum, for which, though there are now (1990) renewed doubts about its authenticity, see M. True, "A Kouros at the ...
University of Michigan. Museum of Art, 1983
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Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the ...
ox to transport their mother to the sanctuary of the Argive Heraion.7 It is demonstrated in a rather different way in the curious relationship between kouroi and divinities - perhaps manifested by the Delphi pair if they are instead Kastor and ...
Lin Foxhall, John Salmon, 2013
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Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient ...
The kouroi stood on sacred sites, often as grave-markers, but also as offerings to the gods. Richard Neer, in his The Emergence ofthe Classical Style in Greek Sculpture (Chicago, 2010), re-creates the sixth-century countryside around ...
Charles Freeman, 2014
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The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture
Sameness At least four kouroi stood around the slopes of Mount Olympos. The first nude youth may, for a traveler unused to such statues, have seemed like a unicum; but as one passed the second, and the third, and the fourth, the overall ...
Richard Neer, 2010
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The British Museum A-Z Companion
two main forms of free-standing sculpture that developed in Greece during the sixth century bc (the Archaic period) were figures of naked youths (kouroi, singular kouros) and clothed girls (korai, singular kore). Most kouroi and korai were made ...
Marjorie Caygill, 2014
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Greek Art: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
Les kouroi du Ptoion: le sanctuaire d'Apollon Ptoieus à l'époque archaïque. Paris : Boccard. The first, and so far the only, in-depth discussion of the important group of kouroi found in the Boeotian Ptoion. In its contextual and historic integrity ...
Oxford University Press, 2010
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The World of Athens: An Introduction to Classical Athenian ...
More or less coincident with the invention of the Doric order was the development of the life-size or over-life-size stone sculptures of naked youths or clothed maidens, known respectively as kouroi and korai. The earliest large stone korai come ...
Robin Osborne, Joint Association of Classical Teachers. Greek Course, 2008
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I santuari urbani: Figure e tavole
CHRONOLOGY The chronology of the handle-kouroi depends on two basic assessments: firstly of the style of the kouroi and then of the secondary ornaments which accompany it (lions, rams, palmettes). In some cases, when the vessel is ...
C. M. Stibbe, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KOUROI»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kouroi is used in the context of the following news items.
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Watch carefully, this cat flies high, really high!
The video, taken during a flight at aviation school Club ULM in Kouroi, French Guiana, shows that the pilot and passenger spotted a kitty midair. «Daily Bhaskar, Jun 15»
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Uh-oh ... The moment the pilot realises there is a cat on his plane …
... feline can be seen scrambling up the wing and clinging on for dear life as the pilot and his passenger cruise around Kouroi, French Guiana. «NEWS.com.au, Jun 15»
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Watch: Cat stows away on glider, has most terrifying experience of …
This video of a flight at aviation school Club ULM in Kouroi, French Guiana is a lesson in checking your aircraft thoroughly before taking off. «Entertainment.ie, Jun 15»
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This Terrified Flying Cat Is Breaking The Internet For Obvious Reasons
According to the Independent, the video was taken at an aviation school in Kouroi, French Guiana, but even since the traumatic incident, the cat ... «MTV UK, Jun 15»
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WATCH: Stowaway cat surprises pilot
The Independent reports that the video was taken during a flight at aviation school Club ULM in Kouroi, French Guiana, with it taking the pilot a ... «Jacaranda FM, Jun 15»
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The top-10 things to see at the Canadian Museum of History's Greek …
Kouroi are free-standing statues of nude males from Greece's Archaic period (800 BC to 480 BC), and the museum of history has two excellent ... «Ottawa Citizen, May 15»
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Restauro a porte aperte per gli ultimi esemplari rinvenuti dei Giganti …
... ai kouroi dell'antica Grecia. Ora gli ultimi esemplari rinvenuti degli enigmatici colossi di arenaria, conosciuti come Giganti di Mont'e Prama, ... «Artribune, May 15»
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Queering Art History
I loved learning about the true function of the Greek statues of unclothed, beautiful boys or Kouroi (an erotic cult object—and interesting, ... «Curve Magazine, May 15»
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Why does the art of ancient Greece still shape our world?
Stone figures called kouroi – or youths – were common. With their rigid stature and heavily stylised sense of human anatomy, they displayed the influence of the ... «BBC News, Apr 15»
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Quietly Looking at These Beautiful Bodies at the British Museum in …
As the sixth century B.C. drew to its close, the kouroi increasingly soften the hard angular forms of their older brothers, exhibiting a burgeoning ... «Huffington Post, Mar 15»

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