What does corps mean?

Definitions for corps
kɔr, koʊrcorps

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. corps, army corpsnoun

    an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support

  2. corpsnoun

    a body of people associated together

    "diplomatic corps"

Wiktionary

  1. corpsnoun

    A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.

  2. corpsnoun

    An organized group of people united by a common purpose.

  3. Etymology: From corps, 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. CORPS

    The CORPS game system, created by Greg Porter was in its first 1990 edition the Conspiracy Oriented Roleplaying System, which was later revised and re-named the Complete Omniversal Role Playing System to focus purely on being a generic role-playing game system.

ChatGPT

  1. corps

    A corps is a large military unit or an organized group of people who work together towards a common goal. This term is used to describe a main subdivision of an armed force in the field, such as the Marine Corps or Peace Corps. It stems from the French word 'corps', which means 'body', suggesting a collective entity or group.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Corps

    the human body, whether living or dead

  2. Corps

    a body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps

  3. Corps

    a body or code of laws

  4. Corps

    the land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed

  5. Etymology: [F., fr. L. corpus body. See Corpse.]

Wikidata

  1. Corps

    A corps is either a large military formation composed of two or more divisions, or an administrative grouping of troops within an armed force with a common function such as Artillery or Signals representing an arm of service. Corps may also refer to a particular unit or a particular branch of service, such as the United States Marine Corps, the Corps of Royal Marines, the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, or the Corps of Commissionaires. The military term was subsequently adopted for public service organizations with a paramilitary command structure, volunteer public service organizations, such as the Peace Corps, various ambulance corps, some NGOs, and other civic volunteer organizations. Due to this use of the term, it has also spread to some other civic or volunteer organizations that lack the paramilitary structure.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Corps

    kōr, n. a division of an army forming a tactical unit—usually Corps d'armée, or army corps:—pl. Corps (kōrz).—Corps de ballet, the company of ballet dancers at a theatre; Corps de garde, the body of soldiers stationed on guard, their station, a guard-house; Corps diplomatique, the whole diplomatic staff at a particular capital. [Fr., from L. corpus.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

  1. CORPS

    A big bunch of fighters. (Dist. bet. cores found in apples and corps found in arms).

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. corps

    Any body of troops acting under one commander.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. corps

    A body of men; especially a body of troops; an organized part or division of an army.

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'corps' in Nouns Frequency: #2746

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Anagrams for corps »

  1. crops

  2. sproc

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of corps in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of corps in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of corps in a Sentence

  1. Liz Rosenberg:

    Energy and( Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) sanctions from April and May provoked a very powerful Iranian response and tipped this confrontation and tensions into a more military sphere. Now the pressure levers are military pressure levers, so the key parties in the escalation relationship are the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and The US military.

  2. Defense Secretary Ash Carter:

    As long as they qualify and meet the standards, women will now be able to contribute to our mission in ways they could not before, they'll be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars, and lead infantry soldiers into combat. They'll be able to serve as Army Rangers and Green Berets, Navy SEALS, Marine Corps infantry, Air Force parajumpers and everything else that was previously open only to men.

  3. Louis Kamwenubusa:

    Such an attack has as objective of creating chaos within security forces, the head of state asks members of those corps to stay calm and united in a bid to avoid falling in the trap of the enemy.

  4. Vivek Murthy:

    The goal of the student community corps is to one, recognize the power that young people have to not only get vaccinated, but to help their peers get vaccinated. And it's also to recognize that, inherent in that power, is the fact that young people often want to hear from other young people, the student community corps is really intended to provide young people with the resources and support that they need to go out there and talk to their classmates, to their family members, and to their friends and help them get the information they need to get vaccinated. And sometimes that's information about the nature of the vaccine, sometimes it's information about the variants, the Delta variant, sometimes it's information about long Covid symptoms and the risks of going unvaccinated.

  5. Captain Jim Jenkins:

    A decision to suspend searching without finding survivors is extremely difficult given the depth of its impact and I know I speak for the entire Coast Guard when I say our thoughts and prayers are with Marine Corps helicopter squadron and particularly with families and loved ones of those missing.

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