noun
corpus
KOR-pus/ˈkɔːrpəs/
A body of related material considered as a whole.
Researchers study a corpus of speeches to track language changes.
Etymology
A corpus is a body of material rather than a physical body. Latin already used corpus for a collection of facts or things, the sense underlying today's research collections.
In context
the corpus of what that individual had seen in the 60 days prior on Twitter.
If I want to create an artificially intelligent legal assistant, I will teach it some corpus of law
More examples
- The poet's letters form an important part of her corpus.
- This corpus of court decisions spans three centuries.
- The team compares two corpora of everyday conversations.
Forms
corpus · corpora · corpuses
Similar words
- collection
- A broader term that does not imply a unified body.
- anthology
- A selected collection of writings, usually published in one volume.