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corpus

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"Body of text"

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɔːpəs/Part of speech nounSorted coprsuStarts with CEnds with S1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the main part of an organ or other bodily structure

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • A corpus approach is a useful methodology for observing, describing and interpreting the stylistic features of language in literary and non-literary texts.
  • Today, computer databases and corpora infinitely increase the ease of this type of research, but the collecting process remains essentially the same.

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