"khous" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: khoes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|khoes}} khous (plural khoes)
  1. Alternative form of chous (“ancient Greek unit”). Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: chous (extra: ancient Greek unit)
    Sense id: en-khous-en-noun-W5WZvj3U Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "1970, Frank Donovan, Prepare Now for a Metric Future, New York, N.Y.: Weybright and Talley, →LCCN, page 6:",
          "text": "The two oldest Greek measures definitely marked as standards date from 550 b.c. and were found in excavations at the Acropolis at Athens. One is a cylindrical corn measure, a khous, which was equal to half the Babylonian log. The other is a water clock marked 2 khous that has a capacity of 393 cubic inches.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Douglas M[aurice] MacDowell, Spartan Law (Scottish Classical Studies; 1), Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, →ISBN, page 112:",
          "text": "The amounts of the contributions which each member of a mess had to make each month are said by Plutarch to have been 1 medimnos of barley-meal, 8 khoes of wine, 5 mnai of cheese, 2½ mnai of figs, and ‘a very small amount of money’ for buying additional items of food (Lyk. 12.3).",
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          "ref": "2001, H[arry] N[orman] Turteltaub, Over the Wine-Dark Sea, New York, N.Y.: Forge, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 112:",
          "text": "When I was in Athens, I could get a khous of Khian for two drakhmai, and one of those jars won’t hold above seven khoes.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2001, John T. Kirby, World Eras, volumes 6 (Classical Greek Civilization, 800-323 B.C.E.), Detroit, Mich.: Gale Group, →ISBN, page 360, column 2:",
          "text": "Drinking khoes of wine was part of the celebration at the Anthesteria.",
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