noun
Meaning 1
A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
corpuscle
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːˌpʌsəl/
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General-American: /ˈkɔɹˌpʌsəl/
noun
Meaning 2
A protoplasmic animal cell; especially, such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are embedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles.
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noun
Meaning 3
A member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Oxford University slang
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noun
Meaning 4
A member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
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Qualifier: Cambridge University slang
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noun
Meaning 5
either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: blood cell, blood corpuscle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: somatic cell, vegetative cell
Narrower terms: leukocyte, leucocyte, white blood cell, white cell, white blood corpuscle, white corpuscle, WBC, packed cells, red blood cell, RBC, erythrocyte
noun
Meaning 6
(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: atom, molecule, particle, mote, speck
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: material, stuff
Narrower terms: grain, grinding, chylomicron, flyspeck, identification particle
History
Etymology
From Latin corpusculum, diminutive of corpus (“body”).
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: телце (telce) — A minute particle
- Bulgarian: частица (častica) — A minute particle
- Catalan: corpuscle — A minute particle
- Chinese Mandarin: 小体 (xiǎotǐ) — A minute particle
- Czech: částečka — A minute particle
- Czech: částice — A minute particle
- Czech: korpuskule — A minute particle
- Esperanto: globeto — A minute particle
- Esperanto: korpeto — A minute particle
- Esperanto: korpusklo — A minute particle
- Finnish: hiukkanen — A minute particle
- Finnish: hitunen — A minute particle
- French: corpuscule — A minute particle
- German: Korpuskel — A minute particle
- Ido: globulo — A minute particle
- Irish: coirpín — A minute particle
- Italian: corpuzzo — A minute particle
- Italian: corpuscolo — A minute particle
- Northern Kurdish: tenolke — A minute particle
- Māori: pōkurukuru — A minute particle
- Persian: کرپول (karpul) — A minute particle
- Persian: ذره (zarre) — A minute particle
- Polish: cząsteczka — A minute particle
- Polish: korpuskuła — A minute particle
- Portuguese: corpúsculo — A minute particle
- Romanian: corpuscul — A minute particle
- Romanian: particulă — A minute particle
- Russian: те́льце (télʹce) — A minute particle
- Russian: части́ца (častíca) — A minute particle
- Russian: части́чка (častíčka) — A minute particle
- Russian: корпу́скула (korpúskula) — A minute particle
- Serbo-Croatian: корпу̀скула — A minute particle
- Serbo-Croatian: korpùskula — A minute particle
- Spanish: corpúsculo — A minute particle