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kilogram

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈkɪləɡɹæm/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10−34 when expressed in units of kg⋅m2⋅s−1. Symbol: kg

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Holonyms: megagram < gigagram
  • Meronyms: picogram < nanogram < microgram < milligram < gram

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: proscribed

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a kilogram is approximately 2.2 pounds

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: kg, kilo

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: metric weight unit, weight unit

Narrower terms: key

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French kilogramme. By surface analysis, kilo- + gram.

Across languages

Translations

146 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: kilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Albanian: kilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Amharic: ኪሎግራም (kilogram) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Arabic: كِيلوغْرَام — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Arabic: كِيلوجْرَام (kīlōgrām) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Arabic: كيلوجرام (kilogrām) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Armenian: կիլոգրամ (kilogram) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Armenian: կիլո (kilo) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Asturian: quilogramu — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Asturian: kilogramu — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Azerbaijani: kiloqram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Bashkir: килограмм (kilogramm) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Belarusian: кілагра́м (kilahrám) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Belarusian: кілягра́м (kiljahrám) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Bengali: কিলো (kilō) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Bengali: কিলোগ্রাম (kilōgram) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Bulgarian: килогра́м (kilográm) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Burmese: ကီလိုဂရမ် (kiluiga.ram) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Carpathian Rusyn: килогра́м (kylohrám) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Catalan: quilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Chamicuro: kilo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Chinese Cantonese: 公斤 (gung1 gan1) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Chinese Cantonese: 千克 (cin1 hak1) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Chinese: гунҗин (gunjin) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Chinese: кило (kilo) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Chinese: килограмм (kilogramm) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Hakka Chinese: 公斤 (kûng-kîn) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Hakka Chinese: 奇勞 /奇劳 (ki-ló) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Chinese: 公斤 (zh-min-nan) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Chinese Mandarin: 千克 (qiānkè) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Chinese Mandarin: 公斤 (gōngjīn) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Czech: kilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Danish: kilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Dutch: kilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Esperanto: kilogramo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Estonian: kilogramm — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Estonian: kilo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Faroese: kilogramm — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Finnish: kilogramma — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • French: kilogramme — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • French: kilo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Galician: quilogramo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Georgian: კილოგრამი (ḳilogrami) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • German: Kilogramm — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Greek: χιλιόγραμμο (chiliógrammo) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Greek: κιλό (kiló) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Gujarati: કિલોગ્રામ (kilogrām) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Hebrew: קִילוֹגְרָם (kilogram) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Hindi: किलो (kilo) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Hindi: किलोग्राम (kilogrām) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Hungarian: kilogramm — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Icelandic: kílógramm — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Indonesian: kilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Ingrian: kilogramma — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Irish: cileagram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Italian: chilogrammo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Italian: chilo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Japanese: キログラム (kiroguramu) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Japanese: キロ (kiro) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Jarai: kĭ — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Kannada: ಕಿಲೋಗ್ರಾಮ್ (kilōgrām) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Kazakh: килограмм (kilogramm) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Khmer: គីឡូក្រាម (kiiloukraam) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Korean: 킬로그램 (killogeuraem) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Korean: 키로 (kiro) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Korean: 킬로 (killo) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Northern Kurdish: kîlo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Northern Kurdish: kîlogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Kyrgyz: килограмм (kilogramm) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Lao: ກິໂລກຣາມ (ki lōk rām) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Lao: ກິໂລ (ki lō) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Lao: ກິໂລກາມ (ki lō kām) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Latin: kilogramma — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Latin: chiliogramma — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Latvian: kilograms — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Latvian: kilo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Lithuanian: kilogramas — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Lü: ᦂᦲᦷᦟᦂᧄ (k̇iilok̇am) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Macedonian: килограм (kilogram) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Malagasy: kilaograma — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Malay: kilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Malayalam: കിലോഗ്രാം (kilōgrāṁ) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Maltese: kilogramm — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Māori: kirokaramu — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Māori: manokaramu — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Marathi: किलोग्रॅम (kilogrĕm) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Mongolian: килограмм (kilogramm) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Pannonian Rusyn: килоґрам (kilogram) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Pannonian Rusyn: кила (kila) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Pashto: کېلو (kiló, keló) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Pashto: کيلوګرام — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Persian: کیلوگرم (kilogram) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Polish: kilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Polish: kilo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Portuguese: quilograma — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Portuguese: kilograma — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Romanian: kilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Russian: килогра́мм (kilográmm) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Russian: кило́ (kiló) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Scottish Gaelic: cileagram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Serbo-Croatian: ки̏лограм — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Serbo-Croatian: kȉlogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Shan: ၵိလူဝ်ၷြမ် (kǐ lǒ grǎm) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Sinhalese: කිලෝග්රෑම් (kilōgrǣm) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Slovak: kilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Slovene: kilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Sotho: kilogeramo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Spanish: kilogramo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Spanish: quilogramo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Swahili: kilo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Swedish: kilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Swedish: kilo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Tagalog: libogramo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Tagalog: kilogramo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Tajik: килограмм (kilogramm) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Tamil: கிலோகிராம் (kilōkirām) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Tamil: கிலோ (kilō) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Tatar: килограм (kiloğram) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Telugu: కిలోగ్రాము (kilōgrāmu) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Thai: กิโลกรัม (gì-loo-gram) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Thai: กิโล (gì-loo) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Thai: โล (loo) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Tibetan: ཀི་ལོ (ki lo) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Tibetan: སྤྱི་རྒྱ (spyi rgya) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Tibetan: སྤྱིའི་རྒྱ་མ (spyi'i rgya ma) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Turkish: kilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Turkish: kilo — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Turkish: okka — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Ottoman Turkish: اوقه (oqqa) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Turkmen: kilogramm — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Ukrainian: кілогра́м (kilohrám) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Urdu: کلوگرام (kilogrām) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Uyghur: كىلوگرام (kilogram) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Uzbek: kilogramm — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Vietnamese: kilôgam — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Vietnamese: ki-lô-gam — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Vietnamese: ki-lô — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Vietnamese: kí lô — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Vietnamese: ký — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Vietnamese: kí — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Welsh: cilogram — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Yiddish: קילאָ (kilo) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Yoruba: kìlógíráàmù — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Yoruba: kílò — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams
  • Zazaki: kilogram (diq) — unit of mass equal to 1000 grams