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corpus¹
- /ˈkɔːpəs/ UK
- /ˈkɔɹpəs/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)pəs
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse, corps, and riff.
noun corpora · corpuses · corpusses · corpi
- A collection of written or spoken texts. No one suggests that Browning intended to mean vagina when he wrote “owls and bats, / Cowls and twats,” because the context does not allow for it, nor does the greater context of the Browning corpus.
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Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.
Text corpora are being used in most current lexicographic projects. Applied linguistic research is another field where text corpora are welcome as an inexhaustible source of empirical information, a polygon for testing various linguistic tools – spell-checkers, OCRs, machine translation systems, NLP
Similar: digital corpus, text corpus
- A structure of a special character or function in the animal body. the corpus of the uterus
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A collection or body of objects with similar characteristics.
About a hundred years ago in Germany, the publishing of corpuses of the ancient Greek coinages was started. […] The significance of those, and some other corpuses is exclusive, because they allowed an enormous amount of numismatic material kept in museum and private collections all over the world, t
Similar: collection, bod, body, bones, flesh, carcass, likam, quarrons, soma
- The body of a man or animal.
Corpus²
- /ˈkɔɹpəs/
Where it comes from
Clipping of Corpus Christi.
proper noun
- Corpus Christi (city in Texas)
- Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
- Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: principal, principal sum, compendium, scheduling, grouping, joint, collection, together, base, consortium, acquis, body, habeas, corps, whole, framework
Translations
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noun linguistics: collection of writings
| Español | corpus |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 말뭉치 malmungchi, 코퍼스 kopeoseu |
| 日本語 | コーパス kōpasu |
| 中文 | 語料庫 /语料库 yǔliàokù |
| Português | corpus |
| Français | corpus |
| Deutsch | Korpus, Textkorpus |
| Italiano | corpus |
| Ελληνικά | σώμα sóma, συλλογή syllogí |
| Русский | ко́рпус kórpus, собра́ние sobránije |
| Tiếng Việt | ngữ liệu |
| العربية | مَتْن matn, مَكْنَز لُغَوِيّ maknaz luḡawiyy |
Talk about this word "corpus." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/corpus. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. corpus. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/corpus "corpus." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/corpus.Cite this
@misc{corpus_2026,
title = {corpus},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/corpus},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
