corpus Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
    principal sum; principal.
  2. noun a collection of writings
    • he edited the Hemingway corpus
  3. noun the main part of an organ or other bodily structure

WordNet

Cor"pus noun
Etymology
L.
Wordforms
plural Corpora
Definitions
  1. A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.

Webster 1913