body

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the external structure of a vehicle

   the body of the car was badly rusted

2. 2
   noun

   the property of holding together and retaining its shape

   wool has more body than rayon

3. 3
   noun

   the entire structure of an organism

   I felt as if my whole body was on fire.

4. 4
   noun

   a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person

   they found the body in the lake

5. 5
   noun

   the central message of a communication

   the body of the message was short

6. 6
   noun

   a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity

   the whole body filed out of the auditorium

7. 7
   noun

   a collection of particulars considered as a system

   a body of law

8. 8
   noun

   an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects

   heavenly body

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- Proto-West Germanic *bodag Old English bodiġ Middle English bodi English body From Middle English body, bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”). Cognate with Old High German botah (“body, corpse, trunk, torso”) (whence Swabian Bottich (“body, torso”), Bavarian Bottich (“body, torso, carcass; lower part of a shirt or jacket”)).