Definitions for kotos

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kotos ko·to

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

IPA: /ˈkoʊ toʊ; Japanese ˈkɔˈtɔ/

Kotos is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in kotos (koost).

Definitions for kotos

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 kotos

Borrowed into English from Japanese around 1785-95

Examples for kotos

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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