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Definition of corpus noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

corpus

noun
 
/ˈkɔːpəs/
 
/ˈkɔːrpəs/
(plural corpora
 
/ˈkɔːpərə/
 
/ˈkɔːrpərə/
, corpuses
 
/ˈkɔːpəsɪz/
 
/ˈkɔːrpəsɪz/
)
(specialist)
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  1. a collection of written or spoken texts
    • a corpus of 100 million words of spoken English
    • the whole corpus of Renaissance poetry
    see also habeas corpus
    Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a human or animal body): from Latin, literally ‘body’. The current sense dates from the early 18th cent.
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