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cor·pus  (kôrps)
n. pl. cor·po·ra (-pr-)
1. A large collection of writings of a specific kind or on a specific subject.
2. A collection of writings or recorded remarks used for linguistic analysis.
3. Economics
a. The capital or principal amount, as of an estate or trust.
b. The principal of a bond.
4. Anatomy
a. The main part of a bodily structure or organ.
b. A distinct bodily mass or organ having a specific function.
5. Music The overall length of a violin.

[Middle English, from Latin; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots.]

corpus [ˈkɔːpəs]
n pl -pora [-pərə]
1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a collection or body of writings, esp by a single author or on a specific topic the corpus of Dickens' works
2. the main body, section, or substance of something
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) Anatomy
a.  any distinct mass or body
b.  the main part of an organ or structure
4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) the inner layer or layers of cells of the meristem at a shoot tip, which produces the vascular tissue and pith Compare tunica [2]
5. (Linguistics) Linguistics a body of data, esp the finite collection of grammatical sentences of a language that a linguistic theory seeks to describe by means of an algorithm
6. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) a capital or principal sum, as contrasted with a derived income
7. Obsolete a human or animal body, esp a dead one
[from Latin: body]

Corpus collection of writings on a subject; writings by an author or group of authors.
Examples: corpus of Christian tradition, 1865; of civil law, 1727; of Oriental numismatics, 1886; of the Greek poets, 1727; of scripture, 1876.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.corpus - capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
capital - wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
2.corpus - a collection of writings; "he edited the Hemingway corpus"
aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
3.corpus - the main part of an organ or other bodily structure
body part - any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity
part, piece - a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"

corpus
noun collection, body, whole, compilation, entirety, oeuvre (French), complete works a corpus of over 450 million words of spoken and written English
Translations
corpus [ˈkɔːpəs]
A. N (corpuses or corpora (pl)) → cuerpo m
B. CPD corpus delicti Ncuerpo m del delito
Corpus Christi NCorpus m
corpus [ˈkɔːrpəs] [corpora] [ˈkɔːrpərə] (pl) n (LINGUISTICS)corpus m
corpus
n
(= collection)Korpus m; (of opinions)Paket nt
(= main body)Großteil m; the main corpus of his workder Hauptteil seiner Arbeit
(Fin) → Stammkapital nt
corpus [ˈkɔːpəs] n (corpora (pl)) [ˈkɔːpərə]corpus m


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