Cora
name, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A member of the Cora people.
- 1 A female given name from Ancient Greek.
"The youth had turned to speak to the dark-eyed Cora, when the distant sound of horses' hoofs, clattering over the roots of the broken way in his rear, caused him to check his charger; […]."
- 2 An indigenous people of west-central Mexico.
- 3 The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Cora people.
Example
More examples"The youth had turned to speak to the dark-eyed Cora, when the distant sound of horses' hoofs, clattering over the roots of the broken way in his rear, caused him to check his charger; […]."
Etymology
Apparently brought up in English literature by James Fenimore Cooper in The Last of the Mohicans (1826), but compare a female heroine of this name in Jean-François Marmontel's Les Incas (1777) and the Ancient Greek epithet Κόρη (Kórē) for Περσεφόνη (Persephónē). It could also refer directly to κόρη (kórē, “maiden”).
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.