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Kor

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of The Komitet Obrony Robotników (Workers' Defence Committee), a Polish workers' committee which preceded the Solidarity movement. abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism

    "Our young friends in the KOR invited us for a Christmas Eve feast in a cold but cheery apartment."

  2. 2
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume. alt-of, alternative, historical

    "Solomon responded by committing 20,000 kors of pure oil and 20,000 kors of wheat in annual payments. A kor of oil is an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid of about 58 gallons. A kor of wheat is equal to 6.25 bushels."

  2. 2
    an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).

Etymology 2

* As a Scottish surname, variant of Caw, shortened from McCaw. * As a German surname, possibly altered from Kohr, from a short form of Konrad, or from Kur, occupational surname from Middle High German kur (“official inspector”) (see modern Kurier (“messenger, courier”)). * As a Dutch surname, from Gronings dialect kor (“wheelbarrow, hand-truck”). * As a Polish surname, possibly a variant of several places derived from góra (“mountain”). * As a Chinese surname, Romanized from 高 (gāo) (see Gao) or 高 (gāo) (see Xu).

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