CORPUS CHRISTI


Meaning of CORPUS CHRISTI in English

I. Cor ‧ pus Chris ‧ ti 1 /ˌkɔːpəs ˈkrɪsti $ ˌkɔːr-/ BrE AmE ( also the Feast of Corpus Christi )

a holy day in the Roman Catholic Church, when the ↑ sacrament (=the holy bread eaten at the Eucharist) is carried in ↑ procession . Corpus Christi is Latin for ‘the Body of Christ’.

II. Corpus Christi 2 BrE AmE

a city in southeast Texas on the Gulf of Mexico

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.