Definitions for corpus

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corpus cor·pus

Spelling: [kawr-puh s]

IPA: /ˈkɔr pəs/

Corpus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in corpus (coprsu).

Definitions for corpus

noun

1. a large or complete collection of writings:
2. the body of a person or animal, especially when dead.
3. Anatomy. a body, mass, or part having a special character or function.
4. Linguistics. a body of utterances, as words or sentences, assumed to be representative of and used for lexical, grammatical, or other linguistic analysis.
5. a principal or capital sum, as opposed to interest or income.

Origin of corpus

1225-75; Middle English Latin

Examples for corpus

Hernandez was well-known in their rough corpus Christi neighborhood as an unsavory character.

Mournful songs abound in the "corpus Poeticum" of the North.

There was also a memorable encounter while disembarking at corpus Christi.

And Rep. Blake Farenthold made it onto the list of “notable people” from corpus Christi, Texas.

The local churches were celebrating The Feast of corpus Christi by launching brilliantly exploding rockets into the night.

So did readers of the corpus Christi Caller-Times in Texas, the Indianapolis Star and the Pensacola News Journal.

I suppose we may have a procession of the children on corpus Christi?

Then draw it forth and melt it, adding your corpus perfectum.

corpus adiposum: the mass of fat tissue often found in larvae.

Taylor concentrated his men at corpus Christi, near the frontier.