kalon

noun

ka·​lon

kəˈlän,

(ˈ)ka¦l-

plural -s

: the ideal of physical and moral beauty especially as conceived by the philosophers of classical Greece

Word History

Etymology

Greek, from neuter of kalos good, beautiful

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