Definitions for koto

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koto ko·to

Spelling: [koh-toh; Japanese kaw-taw]

IPA: /ˈkoʊ toʊ; Japanese ˈkɔˈtɔ/

Koto is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in koto (koot).

Definitions for koto

noun

1. a Japanese musical instrument having numerous strings, usually seven or thirteen, that are stretched over a convex wooden sounding board and are plucked with three plectra, worn on the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of one hand.

Origin of koto

Borrowed into English from Japanese around 1785-95

Examples for koto

Other instruments of music are the koto, the tsuzumi and the drum.

koto cried, and I knew he had leaped to the same conclusion I had.

I flung myself over to koto's side to help him with the gun.

koto was looking at me wide-eyed, and I saw that his interest was as keen as my own.

I felt that koto's chances of getting back to us were one in a thousand.

Then I turned to koto and in the dark waved a fist under his nose.

koto and LeConte kicked open the laboratory door and shot through.

O'Tsugi was engaged in putting back the koto (harp) into its cover.

She took the title after fellow Japanese koto Okubo passed away on Jan. 12, 2013, at the age of 115 years and 19 days.

While his sister is doing her work, Toyo is practising on his koto.