kouros

[koor-os]

noun

Greek Antiquity.

plural

kouroi 

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of kouros¹

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

Example Sentences

Senior diplomat Kyriakos Kouros said a protest was filed by an ambassador of an unnamed Arab state on Saturday after tourists were targeted.

From Reuters

"They cut short their visit. I doubt they will ever return," Kouros, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wrote on the social media platform X on Sunday, posting a picture of the departure of a group at an airport.

From Reuters

He singles out art that speaks to different concepts of time — the work of the Egyptians, with their “neheh,” whose essence was a circle; a Titian portrait of a young man in which “time appears to have pooled instead of frozen, as if past and future are subsumed by the vital present”; a Greek statue called the New York kouros that Bringley feels especially connected to “as a fellow transplant, and as one who also stands in the museum day after day.”

From Washington Post

But the most distinctive of the 55 antiquities returned to Greece by the Manhattan district attorney’s office this week was a 2,500-year-old sculpture of an athletic youth, known as a kouros, valued at $14 million.

From New York Times

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

From Seattle Times