corse
Plural: corses
Noun
- An archaic term for a corpse; a dead body.
- an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France
- a region of France on the island of Corsica; birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte
- A (living) body.
- A dead body, a corpse.
Examples
- The unused letters on his rack lay like a CORSE, waiting to be brought back to life.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpus and corpse, and distantly of riff. Compare corset.
Synonyms
Corsica
Scrabble Score: 7
corse: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcorse: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
corse: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
corse: valid Words With Friends Word