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say it: kawrps
corpse is a noun meaning "the dead body of a human being". It is pronounced /ˈkɔɹps/ — kawrps. It carries one recorded sense.
the dead body of a human being
“the cadaver was intended for dissection”
“the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse”
“the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river”
“honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay”
slang
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for corpse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.