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Koch¹

  • /koʊk/ US
  • /kɑx/ US
  • /kʊk/ US
  • /kəʊk/ UK
  • /kɒx/ UK

Rhymes with -əʊk, -ɒx, -ʊk

proper noun

  1. A language of Meghalaya (India), Assam, Tripura, Manipur, West Bengal, Bihar, and Bangladesh.

Koch²

  • /koʊk/ US
  • /kɑx/ US
  • /kʊk/ US
  • /kəʊk/ UK
  • /kɒx/ UK

Rhymes with -əʊk, -ɒx, -ʊk

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German Koch (“cook”), an occupational surname. Doublet of Cook and Kok.

proper noun Kochs

  1. A surname from German. It was a one-stop political and policy shop, a sort of shadow Republican Party but crafted in the libertarian molds of the Kochs and entirely controlled by them. That wasn’t the only thing that the Koch brothers did differently.

koch³

  • /kɒt͡ʃ/ UK
  • /kɑt͡ʃ/ US

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Russian коч (koč).

noun koches

  1. A wooden sailing ship of Russian design for use in the Arctic. The remnants of the shipwrecked koch left by Russian sailors on the Faddey Islands and their hut (winter quarters) on the shore of Simsa Bay, found by hydrographers in 1940, expanded the understanding of historians of the real practical capabilities of Russian polar explorers-sailors of the seventee

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: weser, cook, coach, kush, cork, ashley, schwann, kok, kock, gogh, grunberg, henle, chef, culinarian, cuisinier, cordon-bleu

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"koch." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/koch. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

koch. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/koch

Chicago

"koch." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/koch.

BibTeX
@misc{koch_2026,
  title = {koch},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/koch},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}