corpus
pronunciation
How to pronounce corpus in British English:
UK [ˈkɔːpəs]
How to pronounce corpus in American English:
US [ˈkɔːrpəs]
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- Noun:
- capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
- a collection of writings
- the main part of an organ or other bodily structure
Word Origin
- corpus (n.)
- (plural corpora), late 14c., from Latin corpus, literally "body" (see corporeal). The sense of "body of a person" (mid-15c. in English) and "collection of facts or things" (1727 in English) both were present in Latin. Corpus Christi (late 14c.), feast of the Blessed Sacrament, is the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. Also used in various medical phrases, such as corpus callosum (1706, literally "tough body"), corpus luteum (1788, literally "yellow body").
Example
- 1. It analyzes the corpus of existing translations , and finds statistical matches .
- 2. One way to gauge the prevalence of a word is to consult the oxford english corpus , a body of 2 billion words .
- 3. Such tools owe a debt to an unlikely , though appropriate , source : the electronic mail database known as the enron corpus .
- 4. A search of the spoken category of the corpus of contemporary american english finds that I is about eight times more common than me-but who is 57 times more common than whom .
- 5. Yet this is one of the more promiscuous dictionaries , highlighting as many different historical meanings and modern senses as it can by scouring the written corpus for different uses of a word .