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

Inflected Forms

noun

• 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

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

It’s like watching a chrysalis become a butterfly: The prototypes are impressive, but the kouros is timeless; he might be about to breathe, move, speak.

From New York Times • May 17, 2015

The kouros was the kind of thing that art experts argued about at conferences.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell