kono

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noun

A traditional Maori woven basket.

OriginMāori kono →
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Meanings

kono1

nounkono (plural kono or konos)

plural konos

  1. New ZealandA traditional Maori woven basket.

    To others my love is a plaited kono / Full or empty […] .

    1972, James K. Baxter, ‘He Waiata mo Te Kare’, Selected Poems, Te Herenga Waka University Press 2023, p. 264
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    His son Hector is the source image of the young boy seated on a log eating a potato from a kono […].

    2016, Nigel Borell, edited by Ngahiraka Mason, Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Māori Portraits, page 214

Kono2

proper nounKono (plural Konos)

plural Konos

  1. A surname from Japanese.

Origin

kono · noun

  1. Māorikono
  2. Englishkono

From Māori kono.

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Kono · proper noun

  1. Japanese河野
  2. EnglishKono

Borrowed from Japanese 河野 (Kōno) or 高野 (Kōno).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

kono. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kono

MLA

“kono.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kono. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “kono,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kono.

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