Plural of corpse
regular plural
The plural of corpse is corpses.
Forms of corpse
| Singular | corpse /kɔːps/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | corpses |
| Countable | countable |
Corpses in a sentence
- Corpses surfaced near Portsmouth - was one of them Buster Crabb? Or were neither of them?From the entry neither
- The isabelline (or Daurian) shrike is a greyish-yellow and hunts from prominent perches, impaling the corpses on thorns as a larder.From the entry isabelline
- It shows you piles of corpses, then revels in its mechs and future-war grimdark.2025 February, Matt Killeen, “The Forever Winter”, in PC Gamer (US), number 392, page 77. From the entry grimdark
- It suggests that medicine has long depended on re-animating corpses for its own epistemological and legitimising ends.2020, Martin O’Brien, Gianna Bouchard, “Zombie sickness: contagious ideas in performance”, in Alan Bleakley, editor, Routledge Handbook of…. From the entry re-member
- The roads are littered with corpses either charred or melted, their dreams, Mr.2008 May 27, Charles Mcgrath, “At World’s End, Honing a Father-Son Dynamic”, in New York Times. From the entry crozzled
Meaning of corpse
- noun A dead body, especially that of a human as opposed to an animal.
- noun The dead body of any animal with flesh; the dead body of a vertebrate; a carcass.
- noun A human body in general, whether living or dead.
Questions about the plural of corpse
- What is the plural of corpse?
- The plural of corpse is corpses.
- Is corpse countable?
- Corpse is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: corpse (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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