- a large or complete collection of writings: the entire corpus of Old English poetry.
- the body of a person or animal, especially when dead.
- a body, mass, or part having a special character or function.
- a body of utterances, as words or sentences, assumed to be representative of and used for lexical, grammatical, or other linguistic analysis.
- a principal or capital sum, as opposed to interest or income.
- a collection or body of writings, esp by a single author or on a specific topic
- the main body, section, or substance of something
- anatomy
- any distinct mass or body
- the main part of an organ or structure
- the inner layer or layers of cells of the meristem at a shoot tip, which produces the vascular tissue and pith
- a body of data, esp the finite collection of grammatical sentences of a language that a linguistic theory seeks to describe by means of an algorithm
- a capital or principal sum, as contrasted with a derived income
- a human or animal body, esp a dead one
