corpus

Plural: corpi, corpora, corpuses, corpusses

Noun

• A collection of written texts, especially one used for linguistic study.
• capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
• a collection of writings
  • "he edited the Hemingway corpus"
• the main part of an organ or other bodily structure
• A collection of written or spoken texts.
• A collection of written or spoken texts.
• Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.
• A structure of a special character or function in the animal body.
• A collection or body of objects with similar characteristics.
• The body of a man or animal.

Examples

• He studied a vast corpus of Scrabble data to improve his game.
• the corpus of the uterus

Synonyms

principal, principal sum, bod, body, collection, digital corpus, flesh, likam, quarrons, soma, text corpus

Related Words

Wiktionary:Corpora, corpus allatum, corpus callosotomy, corpus fetishism, corpus fimbriatum, corpus juris, corpus separatum, corpus vile