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Meaning in simple English, pronunciation and examples

Pronunciation: US /ˈkɔrpəs/ · UK /ˈkɔːpəs/

corpus means: A collection of written or spoken material used to study language, a writer, or a subject.

noun

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A collection of written or spoken material used to study language, a writer, or a subject.

  • We searched the corpus for this phrase.
  • Her poems form a small but important corpus.
  • The study uses a corpus of spoken English.

How to use it: a corpus of something (The researchers collected a corpus of newspaper articles.)

Similar words: collection, body of work

Common phrases: text corpus, spoken corpus, corpus of texts

Questions about corpus

What does corpus mean?

A collection of written or spoken material used to study language, a writer, or a subject.

What is corpus in other languages?

Türkçe: derlem · Español: corpus · Français: corpus · Deutsch: Korpus · Italiano: corpus · 日本語: コーパス

How do you pronounce corpus?

In American English /ˈkɔrpəs/; in British English /ˈkɔːpəs/.

How do you use corpus in a sentence?

We searched the corpus for this phrase. Her poems form a small but important corpus.

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