Meanings
loos1
- pluralplural of loo
loos2
alternative lose · alternative los
- obsoleteuncountablePraise; fame; reputation.
That much he feared, leaſt reprochfull blame / VVith foule diſhonour him mote blot therefore; / Beſides the loſſe of ſo much loos and fame, / As through the world thereby ſhould glorifie his name.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 12, page 510
Loos3
- pluralplural of Loo
Origin
- Latinlaus“praise, glory, fame, renown”
- Old Frenchlos
- Middle Englishloos
- Englishloos
From Middle English loos, lōs (“reputation, renown, fame, infamy, rumor, news”), from Old French los, from Latin laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”). Doublet of laud.
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loos. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loos
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