Luo

American  

[loo-oh, loo-oh] / luˈoʊ, ˈlu oʊ /

noun

plural

Luos,

plural

Luo

1. a member of a people living mainly in southwest Kenya.

2. the Nilotic language of the Luo people.

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Luo British  

/ ˈluːəʊ, ləˈwəʊ /

noun

1. a member of a cattle-herding Nilotic people living chiefly east of Lake Victoria in Kenya

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Nilotic group of the Nilo-Saharan family

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Example Sentences

The production, directed by Elana Luo, is scrupulously well-acted by the four-person cast.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

Brands “overcharging for sets and riding the hype wave, that’s not ideal,” said Luo, the technology consultant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

"It's unbelievable," Guan's mother, Luo Yun, said of the outcome.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

UC Santa Barbara physics professor and MicroBooNE collaborator Xiao Luo has recently published an initial analysis examining this possibility.

From Science Daily • Jan. 12, 2026

I could still hear the sound of voices speaking English in the soft accents of the Luo language, urging me to feel free, feel free, eat more fat from the ram’s tail.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston