Koch

//koʊk// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A language of Meghalaya (India), Assam, Tripura, Manipur, West Bengal, Bihar, and Bangladesh.
  2. 2
    A surname from German.

    "It was a one-stop political and policy shop, a sort of shadow Republican Party but crafted in the libertarian molds of the Kochs and entirely controlled by them. That wasn’t the only thing that the Koch brothers did differently."

Synonyms

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robert koch

Example

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"Lothar Wieler is the head of the Robert Koch Institute, Germany's public research institute for disease control and prevention."

Etymology

Borrowed from German Koch (“cook”), an occupational surname. Doublet of Cook and Kok.

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Koch curveKoch islandKoch snowflakeKoch starwest bengal

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