name
Meaning 1
Corpus Christi (city in Texas)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
corpus
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈkɔɹpəs/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːpəs/
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General-American: /ˈkɔɹpəs/
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rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)pəs
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CMU ARPABET: K AO1 R P AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Cambridge University slang
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name
Meaning 3
Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Oxford University slang
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noun
Meaning 4
A collection of written or spoken texts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A collection of written or spoken texts.
Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: specifically
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: digital corpus, text corpus
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A structure of a special character or function in the animal body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
Examples
- the corpus of the uterus
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noun
Meaning 7
A collection or body of objects with similar characteristics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: collection, bod, body, bones, flesh, carcass, likam, quarrons, soma
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
The body of a man or animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
Meaning 9
the main part of an organ or other bodily structure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: part, piece
noun
Meaning 10
a collection of writings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he edited the Hemingway corpus
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
noun
Meaning 11
capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: principal, principal sum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: capital
History
Etymology
Clipping of Corpus Christi.
Borrowed from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse, corps, and riff.
Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَتْن (matn) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Arabic: مَكْنَز لُغَوِيّ (maknaz luḡawiyy) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Belarusian: ко́рпус (kórpus) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Belarusian: збор (zbor) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Bulgarian: ко́рпус (kórpus) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Catalan: corpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- Chinese Mandarin: 語料庫 /语料库 (yǔliàokù) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Czech: korpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- Danish: korpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- Dutch: corpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- Esperanto: tekstaro — linguistics: collection of writings
- Esperanto: korpuso — linguistics: collection of writings
- Estonian: korpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- Finnish: korpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- French: corpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- German: Korpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- German: Textkorpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- Greek: σώμα (sóma) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Greek: συλλογή (syllogí) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Hungarian: korpusz — linguistics: collection of writings
- Indonesian: korpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- Italian: corpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- Japanese: コーパス (kōpasu) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Korean: 말뭉치 (malmungchi) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Korean: 코퍼스 (kopeoseu) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Macedonian: ко́рпус (kórpus) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Māori: putunga kōrero — linguistics: collection of writings
- Māori: whakaputunga — linguistics: collection of writings
- Norwegian: korpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- Persian: گنجینه نوشتگان — linguistics: collection of writings
- Polish: korpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- Portuguese: corpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- Russian: ко́рпус (kórpus) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Russian: собра́ние (sobránije) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Slovak: korpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- Slovene: korpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- Spanish: corpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- Swedish: korpus — linguistics: collection of writings
- Swedish: språkbank — linguistics: collection of writings
- Turkish: külliyat — linguistics: collection of writings
- Ukrainian: ко́рпус (kórpus) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Ukrainian: збі́рник (zbírnyk) — linguistics: collection of writings
- Vietnamese: ngữ liệu — linguistics: collection of writings
- Persian: پیکره متنی — linguistics: electronic text database
- Persian: گنجینه واژگان — linguistics: electronic text database
- Persian: گنجینه نوشتگان — linguistics: electronic text database
- Persian: جنگ واژگان — linguistics: electronic text database
- Polish: korpus — linguistics: electronic text database
Real reading context