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单词 kore
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Definition of kore in English:

kore

nounPlural koraiˈkɔːreɪˈkôrā
  • An ancient Greek statue of a young woman, standing and clothed in long loose robes.

    古希腊穿着宽松长袍的女青年雕像

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The principal difficulty of interpretation posed by the korai lies in the statues' presence - generic and anonymous.
    • Scholars have suggested that the purpose of statues such as the Peplos Kore and other korai (the plural form of the word) was to serve as votive offerings, perhaps in this case to the goddess Athena.
    • But these korai were, in the end, statues made and commissioned by men - whose ideal of the domestic goddess has altered little over thousands of years.

Origin

From Greek korē 'maiden'.

Definition of kore in US English:

kore

nounˈkôrā
  • An archaic Greek statue of a young woman, standing and clothed in long loose robes.

    古希腊穿着宽松长袍的女青年雕像

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The principal difficulty of interpretation posed by the korai lies in the statues' presence - generic and anonymous.
    • But these korai were, in the end, statues made and commissioned by men - whose ideal of the domestic goddess has altered little over thousands of years.
    • Scholars have suggested that the purpose of statues such as the Peplos Kore and other korai (the plural form of the word) was to serve as votive offerings, perhaps in this case to the goddess Athena.

Origin

From Greek korē ‘maiden’.

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