corpus
noun
cor·pus
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Definition of corpus
1
: the body of a human or animal especially when dead
2a
: the main part or body of a bodily structure or organ
the corpus of the uterus
b
: the main body or corporeal substance of a thing
specifically
: the principal of a fund or estate as distinct from income or interest
3a
: all the writings or works of a particular kind or on a particular subject
especially
: the complete works of an author
b
: a collection or body of knowledge or evidence
especially
: a collection of recorded utterances used as a basis for the descriptive analysis of a language
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Examples of corpus in a Sentence
a computerized corpus of English
Jane Austen's corpus is modest in number but magnificent in achievement.
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Those votes did not come, and the high court denied his habeas corpus petition without comment shortly before 7 p.m. ET. — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, "Larry Swearingen, claimed science excluded him as killer, is executed by Texas," 21 Aug. 2019 Even to those who generally accept the growing corpus of studies disproving a causal link, the optics are undeniably grim. — Sidney Fussell, The Atlantic, "Why It’s So Hard to Stop Marketing Guns in Video Games," 19 Aug. 2019 The corpus contains texts from 1810 to 2009, but to my surprise, there were hardly any results in the first half of the corpus. — Gretchen Mcculloch, WIRED, "The Meaning of All Caps—in Texting and in Life," 23 July 2019 The trust cannot instruct the beneficiary to use the corpus of the trust for the benefit of the transferor, and in fact doing so would be Medicaid fraud. — Wesley E. Wright, Houston Chronicle, "Elder Law: Navigate Medicaid planning with irrevocable trusts," 19 July 2019 The classics corpus is full of meditations on the qualities that make for a good leader. — The Economist, "What would Plato make of Boris Johnson?," 22 June 2019 Certainly, the vast corpus of the Strzok-Page correspondence does reflect a unprofessional, out-of-control culture at the FBI. — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, "The FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law," 11 June 2019 Starting with Alice in Bed (1983), her ten books comprise a sly, illuminating corpus that seems more related to the English comic novel than to most contemporary American fiction. — The New York Review of Books, "Phillip Lopate," 17 Jan. 2019 These systems start with a massive corpus of training samples — millions or billions of images or voice recordings — which are used to train a deep neural network to spot statistical regularities. — Quanta Magazine, "Big Data’s Mathematical Mysteries," 3 Dec. 2015These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'corpus.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for corpus
corpus
noun
English Language Learners Definition of corpus
: a collection of writings, conversations, speeches, etc., that people use to study and describe a language
: a collection of poems, paintings, songs, etc.
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corpus
noun
cor·pus
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plural corpora\ -p(É™-)rÉ™
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Medical Definition of corpus
1
: the human or animal body especially when dead
2
: the main part or body of a bodily structure or organ
the corpus of the jaw
— see corpus uteri
corpus
noun
cor·pus
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plural corpora\ -pÉ™-rÉ™
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Legal Definition of corpus
: the main body of a thing
specifically
: the principal of a fund, trust, or estate as distinct from income or interest : res
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