Definitions for Corporal

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Corporal cor·po·ral

Spelling: [kawr-per-uh l, -pruh l]

IPA: /ˈkɔr pər əl, -prəl/

Corporal is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in Corporal (aclooprr).

Definitions for Corporal

noun

1. Military. a noncommissioned officer ranking above a private first class in the U.S. Army or lance corporal in the Marines and below a sergeant. a similar rank in the armed services of other countries.
2. (initial capital letter) a U.S. surface-to-surface, single-stage ballistic missile.
3. a fine cloth, usually of linen, on which the consecrated elements are placed or with which they are covered.

adjective

1. of the human body; bodily; physical:
2. Zoology. of the body proper, as distinguished from the head and limbs.
3. personal:
4. Obsolete. corporeal; belonging to the material world.

Origin of Corporal

1350-1400; Middle English corporall (Anglo-French) Latin corporālis bodily, equivalent to corpor- (stem of corpus corpus) + -ālis -al¹

Examples for Corporal

To the corporal's inquiry he replied that Ferry had just passed on.

In an act of corporal punishment that we at the Daily Beast do not condone, Joseph grabbed Him by the ear and “pulled hard.”

What gives corporal Kincaid his outsider status is his war experience.

By the end of his life, the memories of corporal punishment at the hands of his teachers were vivid.

Moreover, corporal punishment has the undesirable quality that the more you use it, the less effective it becomes.

We've jammed it, corporal, but another good kick will fetch it; now!

He asked for a corporal or a sergeant who could write and stand fire at the same time.

A corporal was shaking me and whispering "Make no noise; mount and fall in."

What surrounds corporal Kincaid is a compelling portrait of a family in crisis.

This, however, did not prevent him from calling lustily for the "corporal of the guard."