Body

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1 Noun 1.1 Translations 1.2 Related Words

Noun

body (plural: bodies)

1. The physical representation of a human or animal. The Latin word for body is corpus. A dead body can be called a corpse (human) or carcass (animal).
2. A held-together collection or group of physical objects or abstract ideas. Sometimes the Latin word corpus is also used for such a collection. This meaning of the word is derived from (1) because the human body is considered a whole which is of greater value than the sum of the value of the individual members. (Note the double meaning of the word member.)

   a collected body of knowledge.

3. (Car): bodywork.

• Breton: korf m -où (1), karroñsadur m -ioù (3)
• Bulgarian: тяло n (1), корпус m (2), каросерия f (3)
• Catalan: cos m (1)
• Dutch: lichaam n (1), corpus n (2), koetswerk n (3)
• French: corps m (1), corpus m (2), carrosserie m (3)
• German: Körper m
• Greek: (s[o]ma)
• Indonesian: tubuh, badan
• Japanese: からだ / 体 (karada), 身体 (しんたい, shintai), 身 (み, mi)
• Latin: corpus
• Low Saxon: Kropp m
• Spanish: cuerpo m (1), carrocería f (3)
• Swedish: kropp c (1, 2), kaross c (3)