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Meaning of ka | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
/kɑː/

Definitions

  1. A spiritual part of the soul in Egyptian mythology, which survived after death.
  2. The name of the Cyrillic script letter К / к.
  3. Initialism of known associate.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang
  4. Abbreviation of Karnataka: a state of India.
    abbreviation, alt-of
  5. Initialism of King's Arms, a pub in Oxford.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Examples

“Then, I wondered how long I must wait before seeing my Double, but if I recalled, the Ka was not supposed to appear before the seventy days of embalming were done.”
“Hence Dorian's portrait is like the ka or double of the deceased in Egyptian tombs, heaped with toys and furniture.”
“‘You could bind the ka of a man to his body for five thousand years,’ said Jaquel.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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