corpus

Definitions

• (anatomy) body, person person when used to mean "human body", e.g., "on one's person"
• substance, material physical, perceptible to the senses
• the flesh of an animal's body
• a corpse
• the trunk or shaft of something
• (figuratively) the wood under the bark of a tree
• (Medieval) a corpus collection of writings by a single author or addressing a certain topic
• (metonymically) person, individual
• (metonymically) a frame, body, system, structure, community, corporation