corpus

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a collection of writings

   I edited the Hemingway corpus.

2. 2
   noun

   A collection of written or spoken texts.

   No one suggests that Browning intended to mean vagina when he wrote “owls and bats, / Cowls and twats,” because the context does not allow for it, nor does the greater context of the Browning corpus.

3. 3
   noun

   A structure of a special character or function in the animal body.

   the corpus of the uterus

4. 4
   noun

   A collection or body of objects with similar characteristics.

   About a hundred years ago in Germany, the publishing of corpuses of the ancient Greek coinages was started. […] The significance of those, and some other corpuses is exclusive, because they allowed an enormous amount of numismatic material kept in museum and private collections all over the world, to be studied and systematized.

5. 5
   noun

   the main part of an organ or other bodily structure

6. 6
   noun

   capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

7. 7
   noun

   The body of a man or animal.

8. 8
   name

   Corpus Christi (city in Texas)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse, corps, and riff.