corpus
IPA: kˈɔrpʌs
noun
- A collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic or a particular author, etc.
- (specifically, linguistics) Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.
- (uncommon) A body, a collection.
- (informal) Corpus Christi (city in Texas)
- (Cambridge University slang) Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
- (Oxford University slang) Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Advertisement
Examples of "corpus" in Sentences
- The corpus of the law has improved since then.
- The petiole is shorter than the corpus of the leaf.
- It's not tangibly a language or corpus of scriptures
- The homily forms part of Chrysostom's corpus of panegyrics.
- It fails to unpack the place of reason in the Randian corpus.
- The glans penis is the expanded cap of the corpus spongiosum.
- This part of the Corpus Juris is the regulation of the civil law.
- In the thirteenth century the Feast of Corpus Christi was instituted.
- The Court issued the writs of habeas corpus and certiorari to the inmate.
- In most species the corpus luteum is degraded in the absence of a pregnancy.