body

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The whole physical structure of a person or animal.

   Regular exercise keeps your body healthy.

2. 2
   noun

   A dead person or animal.

   The police found a body in the river.

3. 3
   noun

   A group of people who work together or share a purpose.

   A government body oversees the safety rules.

4. 4
   noun

   The main part of something, such as a text or vehicle.

   The body of the email was only two sentences long.

Common collocations

• human body Adjective + noun
• dead body Adjective + noun

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”)).

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