Usually means: Ancient unit of distance measurement.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. KO's, KOs, Kos: Merriam-Webster
  2. KO's, Kos: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Kos: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. KO's, k.o.'s, kos: Collins English Dictionary
  5. kos: Vocabulary.com
  6. KO's, KOs, Ko's, Kos, ko's, kos: Wordnik
  7. KOs, ko's, kos: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. KO's, KOs, Kos: Wiktionary
  9. kos: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. kos: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. kos: Dictionary.com
  12. kos: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. kos: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. KOS (Yugoslavia), KOS, Kos (disambiguation), Kos (regional unit), Kos (unit), Kos: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. kos: Rhymezone
  16. Kos: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. kos: FreeDictionary.org
  18. kos: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. KO's, Kos: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kos: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kos: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. KOS: Acronym Finder
  2. KOS: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. K.O.S, K.O.S: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (KOS)

▸ noun:  An island in the Dodecanese, Greece.
▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of coss. [(British India, South Asia) A measure of distance, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.]
▸ noun:  Acronym of key operated switch.
▸ noun:  Acronym of key-operated selector.
▸ noun:  Acronym of Knackered Old Shit.
▸ noun:  Initialism of knowledge organization system.
▸ noun:  Initialism of knowledge organization structure.
▸ noun:  (computing) Initialism of kernel operating system.
▸ verb:  (video games) Initialism of kill on sight: used in addition to a target player's username to alert teammates of a suspicious player that should be killed when seen.
▸ noun:  Initialism of Kohler Operating System.

Similar:
coss, Kassos, Rhodes, Kalymnos, Syme, Delos, Milos, Lesbos, Kimolos, Kosrae, more...

Phrases:
Daily Kos, kos mos, Kos International Airport, Battle of Kos, Massacre of Kos, more...

Adjectives:
few, total, full, royal, several, common, thiuli, long, distant, panch, var


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Similar:
coss, Kassos, Rhodes, Kalymnos, Syme, Delos, Milos, Lesbos, Kimolos, Kosrae, more...

Phrases:
Daily Kos, kos mos, Kos International Airport, Battle of Kos, Massacre of Kos, Birgit Kos, more...

Adjectives:
few, total, full, royal, several, common, thiuli, long, distant, panch, var



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