kouros

American  

[koor-os] / ˈkʊər ɒs /

noun

Greek Antiquity.

kouroi plural

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• kouroi
  plural

Etymology

Origin of kouros

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

Example Sentences

According to prosecutors, Steinhardt purchased the kouros statue from dealer Robert Hecht in November 2000 for $2.3 million.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2022

The day will come — is it already here? — when a Kongo power figure is as familiar to a Met audiences as a Greek kouros, and “Gwandansu” helps explain what a “Madonna” means.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2022

Sometimes I’m doing paintings and I could be doing anything, but it still looks like a kouros.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2021

There are true glam items — an apparitionally perfect marble kouros; a cup attributed to the great Penthesilea Painter — but also homely ones: pottery shards with inscriptions, that kind of thing.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017

Harrison and Hoving and the other art experts who looked at the Getty kouros had powerful and sophisticated reactions to the statue, but didn’t they bubble up unbidden from their unconscious?

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell