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corpus

/ˈkɔɹpəs/noun2 syllables

Corpus means: capital as contrasted with the income derived from it.

Synonyms for corpus13

noun, as in capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

principal, principal sum

also used for corpus

digital corpus, text corpus, collection, bod, body, bones, flesh, carcass, likam, quarrons, soma

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What does corpus mean?3

noun

1

capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

2

a collection of writings“he edited the Hemingway corpus”

3

the main part of an organ or other bodily structure

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Corpus in a sentence

  • In order to be useful, a linguistic corpus needs to cover all topics.Miktsoanit
  • Computer-generated sentences defeat the purpose of a linguistic corpus.rul
  • The corpus is not structured as a table but as a graph.wallebot
  • The corpus would be incomplete and of limited use without political sentences.Miktsoanit
  • They used data from over ten thousand different books to compile their corpus.ferra
  • The corpus callosum connects the right and left parts of the brain.Hybrid
  • The most important tags for corpus maintainers are those that request a particular operation.cykel
  • Habeas corpus is a very ancient principle of the common law.CM

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Forms of corpus

as a noun

plural
corpora