English Explanatory Dictionary

corpus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A collection of written or spoken texts.
  2. Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.
  3. A structure of a special character or function in the animal body.
  4. A collection or body of objects with similar characteristics.
  5. The body of a man or animal.
name
  1. Corpus Christi (city in Texas)
  2. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
  3. Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Pronunciation

/ˈkɔːpəs/ /ˈkɔɹpəs/ en-au-corpus.ogg

Word forms

corpus corpora corpuses corpusses corpi

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse, corps, and riff.

Synonyms

digital corpus text corpus collection bod body flesh carcass likam quarrons soma

Related words

Wiktionary:Corpora corpus allatum corpus callosotomy corpus fetishism corpus fimbriatum corpus juris corpus separatum corpus vile

Derived words

aligned parallel corpus corpus callosum corpus cavernosum corpus cavernosum clitoridis corpus cavernosum penis corpus delicti corpus language corpus linguistics corpus luteum corpus manager corpus spongiosum corpus striatum habeas corpus metacorpus noncorpus procorpus subcorpus

Translations

Arabic: مَتْن Arabic: مَكْنَز لُغَوِيّ Belarusian: ко́рпус Belarusian: збор Bulgarian: ко́рпус Catalan: corpus Chinese Mandarin: 語料庫 /语料库 Czech: korpus Danish: korpus Dutch: corpus Esperanto: tekstaro Esperanto: korpuso Estonian: korpus Finnish: korpus French: corpus German: Korpus German: Textkorpus Greek: σώμα Greek: συλλογή Hungarian: korpusz Indonesian: korpus Italian: corpus Japanese: コーパス Korean: 말뭉치 Korean: 코퍼스 Macedonian: ко́рпус Māori: putunga kōrero Māori: whakaputunga Norwegian: korpus Persian: گنجینه نوشتگان Polish: korpus Portuguese: corpus Russian: ко́рпус Russian: собра́ние Slovak: korpus Slovene: korpus Spanish: corpus Swedish: korpus Swedish: språkbank Turkish: külliyat Ukrainian: ко́рпус Ukrainian: збі́рник Vietnamese: ngữ liệu
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