corpus
Syllables: cor·pusUK/ˈkɔːpəs/US/ˈkɔɹpəs/
corpus noun: a collection of written or spoken texts.
Noun
corpus (plural corpora or corpuses or corpusses or (hypercorrect) corpi)
- A collection of written or spoken texts.
- No one suggests that Browning intended to mean vagina when he wrote “owls and bats, / Cowls and twats,” because the context does not allow for it, nor does the greater context of the Browning corpus.2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 113
- A corpus approach is a useful methodology for observing, describing and interpreting the stylistic features of language in literary and non-literary texts.2014, Giuseppina Balossi, “Corpus Approaches to the Study of Language and Literature”, in A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Literary Language and Characterization: Virginia Woolf's The Waves...
- Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.
- Text corpora are being used in most current lexicographic projects. Applied linguistic research is another field where text corpora are welcome as an inexhaustible source of empirical information, a polygon for testing various linguistic tools – spell-checkers, OCRs, machine translation systems...2007, Mihail Mihailov, Hannu Tommola, “Compiling Parallel Text Corpora: Towards Automation of Routine Procedures”, in Wolfgang Teubert, editor, Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography (Benjamins...
- Comparable corpora are made up of texts in different languages that may be related in various ways, but are not translations of each other. They may have nothing in common at all, or be on the same subject, of the same genre, or from the same chronological period, etc.2008, Anabel Borja, “Corpora for Translators in Spain. The CDJ-GITRAD Corpus and the GENITT Project.”, in Gunilla [M.] Anderman, Margaret Rogers, editors, Incorporating Corpora: The Linguist and the...
- A structure of a special character or function in the animal body.
- the corpus of the uterus
- A collection or body of objects with similar characteristics.
- About a hundred years ago in Germany, the publishing of corpuses of the ancient Greek coinages was started. […] The significance of those, and some other corpuses is exclusive, because they allowed an enormous amount of numismatic material kept in museum and private collections all over the world...1998, Dimitǎr Draganov, “New Coin Types of Hadrianopolis”, in Ulrike Peter, editor, Stephanos Nomismatikos: Edith Schönert-Geiss zum 65. Geburtstag (Griechisches Münzwerk), Berlin: Akademie Verlag...
- An assessment in 1991 proposed publication of the results of this work in three stages: […] secondly, a corpus of the Roman pottery to present the type series and to discuss the fabrics and forms recovered, […]2014, Margaret Darling, Barbara Precious, “Introduction”, in A Corpus of Roman Pottery from Lincoln (Lincoln Archaeological Studies; 6), Oxford: Oxbow Books, →ISBN, page 1
- The body of a man or animal.
Proper noun capitalized: Corpus
Corpus
- Corpus Christi (city in Texas)
- Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
- Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
corpus meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
corpus in Hindi
- कॉर्पस, कार्पस
corpus in Tamil
- உடம்பு, சடலம், பிணம், மெய்யம், உடல் சிறப்புத்திசு உறுப்பு, பாலூட்டியின் அண்ட நுண்பை வெண்திரள்
corpus in Marathi
- कॉर्पस, कार्पस
corpus in Urdu
- جسد, جسم, مردہ جسم, تن
More languagesFewer languages
- corpus in Bengali
- কায়া, দেহ
- corpus in Telugu
- కార్పస్
- corpus in Malayalam
- കോർപ്പസ്, കോർപസ്, കാർപ്പസ്
- corpus in Kannada
- ಕಾರ್ಪಸ್
- corpus in Gujarati
- કોર્પસ, કાર્પસ
- corpus in Odia
- କାର୍ପସ୍
- corpus in Nepali
- कार्पस, कर्पस, कोर्पस
- corpus in Arabic
- مَتْن matn, مَكْنَز لُغَوِيّ maknaz luḡawiyy
- corpus in Indonesian
- korpus
- corpus in Persian
- گنجینه نوشتگان, پیکره متنی, گنجینه واژگان, جنگ واژگان
- corpus in Vietnamese
- ngữ liệu
Examples of corpus in a sentence
- The corpus was searched for clauses and nonclauses that illustrated the relevant property.
- The corpus was searched for nonclause examples of the relevant property.
- The backbone of our research is an extensive corpus of contemporary spoken Esperanto.
Synonyms of corpus
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Forms of corpus
| plural | corpora |
|---|---|
| plural | corpuses |
| plural | corpusses |
| plural hypercorrect | corpi |
Origin of corpus
Borrowed from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse, corps, and riff.
Clipping of Corpus Christi.
Words formed from corpus
Phrases with corpus
Words that rhyme with corpus
Questions about corpus
- What does corpus mean?
- Corpus means a collection of written or spoken texts.
- What is corpus in Hindi?
- Corpus in Hindi is कॉर्पस, कार्पस. See Corpus meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is corpus?
- Corpus can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce corpus?
- Corpus is pronounced /ˈkɔːpəs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of corpus?
- The plural of corpus is corpora.
Words near corpus in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: corpus (page history and authors); Corpus (page history and authors); corpus (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corpus (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corpus (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corpus (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corpus (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corpus (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corpus (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corpus (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corpus (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corpus (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corpus (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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