What does Corpse mean?

Definitions for Corpse
kɔrpscorpse

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remainsnoun

    the dead body of a human being

    "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

Wiktionary

  1. corpsenoun

    a dead body

  2. corpseverb

    to lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably

  3. Etymology: From corpus

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Corps, Corpsenoun

    Etymology: corps, Fr. corpus, Latin.

    Though plenteous, all too little seems
    To stuff this man, this vast unhide-bound corps. John Milton.

    He looks as man was made, with face erect,
    That scorns his brittle corps, and seems asham’d
    He’s not all spirit. John Dryden, Don Sebastian.

    Not a friend greet
    My poor corps, where my bones shall be thrown. William Shakespeare.

    There was the murder’d corps in covert laid,
    And violent death in thousand shapes display’d. John Dryden, Fables.

    See where the corps of thy dead son approaches. Addison.

    The corpse was laid out upon the floor by the emperor’s command: he then bid every one light his flambeau, and stand about the dead body. Joseph Addison, Guardian, №. 99.

Wikipedia

  1. CORPSE

    Corpse Husband (born August 8, 1997), commonly abbreviated as Corpse and stylized as CORPSE, is an American YouTuber and musician. Corpse is best known for his music and "faceless" work on YouTube. He is mostly known for his horror story narration and Among Us content. He also gained notable recognition for his deep low-pitched voice.

ChatGPT

  1. corpse

    A corpse is the dead body of a human or animal. It is usually referred to after biological death has occurred, and it can be a subject of anatomy studies, dissections, autopsies, or funeral rites.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Corpsenoun

    a human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously

  2. Corpsenoun

    the dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig

  3. Etymology: [OF. cors (sometimes written corps), F. corps, L. corpus; akin to AS. hrif womb. See Midriff, and cf. Corse, Corselet, Corps, Cuerpo.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Corpse

    korps, or kors, n. the dead body of a human being.—ns. Corpse′-can′dle, a light seen hovering over a grave—an omen of death; Corpse′-gate, the lichgate (see Lichgate). [M. E. corps, earlier cors—O. Fr. cors, the body—L. corpus.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. corpse

    Jack's term for the party of marines embarked; the corps.

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Corpse' in Nouns Frequency: #2709

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Corpse in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Corpse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Corpse in a Sentence

  1. Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah:

    There is no need to panic. The corpse has been buried and our contact tracing has started work.

  2. Alexander Herzen:

    There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

  3. Pallo Conteh:

    I am expecting more cases, we are sure that the body was washed ... so all those who took part in the washing of the corpse, all those who were helping her when she was having wet symptoms would all become infected.

  4. Ahmet Davutoglu:

    It is unacceptable to treat any corpse this way, even if it is a dead terrorist.

  5. Jean Baudrillard:

    Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

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