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91Kalevala — /kah leuh vah leuh/; Fin. /kah le vah lah/, n. 1. (italics) the national epic of Finland (1835, enlarged 1849), compiled and arranged by Elias Lönnrot from popular lays of the Middle Ages. 2. the home or land of Kaleva; Finland. [ < Finnish] * *… …
92Kalisz — /kah lish/, n. a city in central Poland. 81,200. German, Kalisch /kah lish/. * * * ▪ Poland city, Wielkopolskie województwo (province), west central Poland, situated on the Prosna River. The excavations of a prehistoric village and… …
93Kama — /kah meuh/, n. a river in the E Russian Federation in Europe, flowing from the central Ural Mountains region into the Volga River S of Kazan. 1200 mi. (1930 km) long. /kah meuh/, n. 1. Hindu Myth. the god of erotic desire, sometimes seen as an… …
94kamelaukion — /kah mee lahf kee awn/; Eng. /kam euh law kee on , kah meuh low /, n., pl. kamelaukia / kee ah/; Eng. / kee euh/, kamelaukions. Gk. Orth. Ch. a tall, black, brimless, flat topped hat, worn by the clergy of the Eastern Church. [ < MGk kamelaúkion …
95Kamensk-Uralski — /kah meuhnsk yoo ral skee/; Russ. /kah myinsk ooh rddahl skyee/, n. a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains. 198,000. Also, Kamensk Uralskiy. * * * …
96kamikaze — /kah mi kah zee/, n. 1. (during World War II) a member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, esp. a warship. 2. an airplane used for this …
97kana — /kah neuh/; Japn. /kah nah/, n. a Japanese syllabic script consisting of 71 symbols and having two written varieties. Cf. hiragana, katakana. [1720 30; < Japn; earlier kanna, kari na makeshift names (i.e., characters) as opposed to ma na true… …
98kana-majiri — /kah neuh mah jeuh ree/; Japn. /kah nah mah jee rddee /, n. the standard script of modern Japanese, in which kanji are used for root elements, supplemented by kana for inflections and particles and sometimes for indication of the Japanese… …
99Katharevusa — /kah theuh rev euh sah , seuh, kath euh /; Gk. /kah thah rdde vooh sah/, n. the puristic Modern Greek literary language (distinguished from Demotic). Also called Hellenic. * * * …
100Katowice — /kah taw vee tse/, n. a city in S Poland. 344,000. German, Kattowitz /kah toh vits/. * * * City (pop., 2000 est.: 340,539), south central Poland. Located in the midst of the coalfields of Upper Silesia, it was settled by 1598. It became a city in …
