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Definition of 'corpus'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) corpus
a large or complete collection of writings:
the entire corpus of Old English poetry.

2.  corpus
the body of a person or animal, esp. when dead.

3.  corpus
a mass of body tissue that has a specialized function.

4.  corpus
the main part of a bodily organ.

5.  corpus
a collection of utterances, as spoken or written sentences, taken as a representative sample of a given language or dialect and used for linguistic analysis.

Etymology: (1225–75; ME < L)

Definition of 'corpus'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) principal, corpus, principal sum
capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

2. (noun) corpus
a collection of writings
"he edited the Hemingway corpus"

3. (noun) corpus
the main part of an organ or other bodily structure

Definition of 'corpus'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) corpus
a body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing

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