corpus

1. 1.

   capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

   Synonymsprincipalprincipal sum

   Broadercapital
2. 2.

   a collection of writings

   “he edited the Hemingway corpus”

   Broadercollection
3. 3.

   the main part of an organ or other bodily structure

   Broaderpart

   Part ofbody part

Other forms of corpus

plural

corpora

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.

Questions about corpus

What does corpus mean?

corpus means "capital as contrasted with the income derived from it". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in corpus?

corpus has 2 syllables: cor-pus. The stress falls on "cor". In IPA it is /ˈkɔɹpəs/.

What is another word for corpus?

Close synonyms include principal, principal sum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is corpus a common word?

corpus is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.