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corpus

corpus

15 7.3
A collection of written texts, often all the works of one author
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔrpəs/
  • Specialized
translation icon : corpus
  • For her thesis, she examined a diverse corpus of texts from various authors in the 19th century.
  • a large corpus
  • the whole corpus
  • a reference corpus

He said, when you say the biblical corpus, do you mean the Bible?

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Examples

  • We then ran this query over our medical corpus, returning a set of 100 passages.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Winner of the MacArthur Award for his work in helping to compile a corpus of Mayan inscriptions.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • It's at some point the enormous corpus of literature on the association between writing and suffering becomes relevant.

  • So those are some good reasons for delving into his corpus, his body of work.

  • The extent to which the reference corpus is a representative sample of community college mission statements is unknown, however.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The main corpus includes nearly the entire population of community colleges, but the reference corpus represents a convenience sample.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The remaining two tiers represent a corpus of words otherwise known as academic vocabulary.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Ernest Hemingway's corpus of novels might well be titled "Reflections on Exile."

    Academic text (2017)
  • Researchers compiled a comprehensive corpus of Shakespeare's plays to analyze his language.

  • The study focused on a large corpus of academic articles related to climate change.

Synonyms

literature
vscorpus
  • Specialized
138 5.3

All the published writing about a specific subject, like medical studies

is a selected collection of texts often an author's complete works

Compounds

habeas corpus
  • Formal
16 9.9

A court order making police bring a person in jail to a judge to check if keeping them is legal

4 9.9

An order to bring a prisoner before a judge to check if being held is legal

corpus callosum
  • Specialized
2 8.0

A wide band of nerve tissue that joins the left and right sides of the brain

1 9.9

Facts and evidence that show a crime was committed

corpus luteum
  • Specialized
1 7.6

A yellow tissue in the ovary that makes hormones after an egg leaves and goes away unless pregnancy happens

corpus striatum
  • Specialized
1 9.1

A part of the brain made of two connected areas that helps control movement

corpus amygdaloideum
  • Specialized
9.9

An almond-shaped group of brain cells in the front part of the side of the brain that helps control emotions

A Christian feast on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday that celebrates the bread and wine of Communion

9.9

Part of the brain that sends visual signals from the eye to the visual area at the back

9.9

A part of the thalamus that relays sound signals to the hearing part of the brain

corpus mamillare
  • Specialized
9.9

They are small round parts under the brain that help you remember things

corpus sternum
  • Specialized
8.9

The middle flat part of the chest bone between its top and lower tip

How Big

corpus
  • Specialized
15 7.3
collection
759 1.4
selection
31 3.2

Surface Forms

corpus singular
corpora plural

Etymology

Corpus comes from the Latin corpus, which means 'body', and writers use it for a whole 'body' of texts or works. That is why a corpus of Shakespeare means the complete set of his writings.