/ ˈkɔːpəs; NAmE ˈkɔːrpəs/ noun
( pl. cor·pora / ˈkɔːpərə; NAmE ˈkɔːrp-/ or cor·puses / -sɪz; NAmE /) ( technical ) a collection of written or spoken texts :
a corpus of 100 million words of spoken English
the whole corpus of Renaissance poetry
—see also habeas corpus
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WORD ORIGIN
late Middle English (denoting a human or animal body): from Latin , literally body . The current sense dates from the early 18th cent.