horos
noun
horos is a noun meaning “A stone marking a boundary in Ancient Greece” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-R-O-S, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of horos is horoi.
What does horos mean?
noun
- 1
A stone marking a boundary in Ancient Greece.
- 2
plural of horo
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of horos
- horoi plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is horos?
Horos appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does horos come from?
From Ancient Greek ὅρος (hóros).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).