corps
pronunciation
How to pronounce corps in British English:
UK [kɔː(r)]
How to pronounce corps in American English:
US [kɔːr]
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- Noun:
- an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions
- a body of people associated together
Word Origin
- corps (n.)
- late 13c., cors "body," from Old French cors "body, person, corpse, life" (9c.), from Latin corpus "body" (see corporeal). Sense in English evolved from "dead body" (13c.) to "live body" (14c.) to "body of citizens" (15c.) to "band of knights" (mid-15c.). The modern military sense (1704) is from French corps d'armée (16c.), picked up in English during Marlborough's campaigns. French restored the Latin -p- in 14c., and English followed 15c., but the pronunciation remained "corse" at first and corse persisted as a parallel formation. After the -p- began to be sounded (16c. in English), corse became archaic or poetic only.
Example
- 1. Reuters / us marine corps / gunnery sgt. leo a. salinas
- 2. In the nineteen eighties , he taught english in morocco as a peace corps volunteer .
- 3. So the press corps is a little nervous , as well .
- 4. The commanders of the second artillery corps and the navy sit on the central military commission .
- 5. Even without the peace corps background , it 's a consumer experience I can relate to very well .