English

Pronunciation

• IPA /'bɒdi/

Noun

body (plural: bodies)

1. The physical structure 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. The torso, the bulk of a "body", excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail) - (he took a hit to the body)
3. 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.)
4. a collected body of knowledge.
5. (Car) the physical bulk of a car, as opposed to the mechanical components. Also bodywork
6. (a) Cadaver

Synonyms

• See WikiSaurus:body (1)
• See WikiSaurus:corpse (1)

Translations

• Breton: korf m -où (1), karroñsadur m -ioù (5)
• Bulgarian: тяло n (1), корпус m (2), каросерия f (5)
• Catalan: cos m (1)
• Chinese: 身体 (shēntǐ), 身, 躯体
• Dutch: lichaam n (1), corpus n (2), koetswerk n (3)
• Finnish: ruumis (1), keho (1), raato (dead body), kokoelma (2), korpus (2, in linguistics), elin (2, of governmental bodies)
• French: corps fr m (1), corpus fr m (2), carrosserie m (5)
• German: Körper de m (1, 2, living); Leiche , Leichnam (1, dead); Rumpf (2); Körperschaft (3, of persons); Karosserie (5)
• Greek: σώμα (s[o]ma)
• Hebrew: גוף he (guf)
•  : corpo
• Indonesian: tubuh , badan
• Italian: corpo it m
• Japanese: からだ / 体 (karada), 身体 (しんたい, shintai), 身 (み, mi); 物体 (object), 団体 (2); 胴体 (trunk)
• Latin: corpus
• Lithuanian: kūnas m (1); approxim. visuma f (2)
• Low Saxon: Kropp m
• Polish: ciało n (1)
• Russian: тело ru (t'elo)
• Spanish: cuerpo m (1), carrocería f (5)
• Swedish: kropp c (1, 2), kaross c (5)

Related Words

• body image
• body conscious

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