cor·pus

(kôr′pəs)

n. pl. cor·po·ra (-pər-ə)

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. The overall length of a violin.

[Middle English, from Latin; see k^wrep- in Indo-European roots.]

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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. (Anatomy) anatomy

a. any distinct mass or body

b. the main part of an organ or structure

4. (Plants) the inner layer or layers of cells of the meristem at a shoot tip, which produces the vascular tissue and pith. Compare tunica²

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. (Banking & Finance) a capital or principal sum, as contrasted with a derived income

7. obsolete a human or animal body, esp a dead one

[C14: from Latin: body]

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cor•pus

(ˈkɔr pəs)

n., pl. -po•ra (-pər ə)
for 1-3,5, -pus•es for 4.

1. a large or complete collection of writings: the entire corpus of Old English poetry.

2. the body of a person or animal, esp. when dead.

a. a mass of body tissue that has a specialized function.

b. the main part of a bodily organ.

4. a collection of utterances, as spoken or written sentences, taken as a representative sample of a given language or dialect and used for linguistic analysis.

[1225–75; Middle English < Latin]

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.

corpus

A distinctive mass of tissue; the major part of an organ.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	corpus - capital as contrasted with the income derived from it principal sum, principal 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

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corpus

noun

1. A measurable whole:

amount, body, budget, bulk, quantity, quantum.

2. Anatomy. The main part:

body, bulk.

Translations

Corpus Korpus

corpus

[ˈkɔːpəs]

A. N (corpuses or corpora (pl)) → cuerpo m

B. CPD corpus delicti N → cuerpo m del delito
Corpus Christi N → Corpus m

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corpus

[ˈkɔː^rpəs] [corpora] [ˈkɔː^rpərə] (pl) n (LINGUISTICS) → corpus m

corpus

(= collection) → Korpus m; (of opinions) → Paket nt

(= main body) → Großteil m; the main corpus of his work → der Hauptteil seiner Arbeit

(Fin) → Stammkapital nt

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corpus

[ˈkɔːpəs] n (corpora (pl)) [ˈkɔːpərə] → corpus m