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Synonyms of Corps

band, brigade, company, division, outfit, squad, troop, unit, company, party, troop, troupe

Corps

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corps

[kawr, kohr] Pronunciation Key

–noun, plural corps [kawrz, kohrz] Pronunciation Key.

Military.

a.	a military organization consisting of officers and enlisted personnel or of officers alone: the U.S. Marine Corps; corps of cadets.

b.	a military unit of ground combat forces consisting of two or more divisions and other troops.

2.	a group of persons associated or acting together: the diplomatic corps; the press corps.

3.	Printing. a Continental designation that, preceded by a number, indicates size of type in Didot points of 0.0148 in. (3.8 mm): 14 corps.

4.	Obsolete. corpse.

[Origin: 1225–75; ME corps, cors < MF < L corpus body; see corpse

]

—Synonyms 2. team, force, crew, band.

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corps (kôr, kōr) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. corps (kôrz, kōrz)

1. A separate branch or department of the armed forces having a specialized function.
2. A tactical unit of ground combat forces between a division and an army commanded by a lieutenant general and composed of two or more divisions and auxiliary service troops.
A body of persons acting together or associated under common direction: the press corps. See Synonyms at band².

[French, from Old French, from Latin corpus, body; see k^wrep- in Indo-European roots.]

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corps

c.1275, cors "body," from O.Fr. cors, from L. corpus "body" (see corporeal). The -p- was re-inserted 15c., following Fr., based on L. original. Sense in Eng. evolved from "dead body" (13c.) to "live body" (14c.) to "body of citizens" (15c.) to "band of knights" (1464). The modern military sense (1704) is from Fr. corps d'armée (16c.), picked up in Eng. during Marlborough's campaigns.

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corps
noun
1.	an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support
2.	a body of people associated together; "diplomatic corps"

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Marine Corps Log, GA Zip code(s): 31704

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau

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Corps

Core\ (k[=o]r), n. [F. corps. See Corps.] A body of individuals; an assemblage. [Obs.]

He was in a core of people. --Bacon.

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Corps

Corps\ (k[=o]r, pl. k[=o]rz), n. sing. & pl. [F., fr. L. corpus body. See Corpse.]

1. The human body, whether living or dead. [Obs.] See Corpse, 1.

By what craft in my corps, it cometh [commences] and where. --Piers Plowman.

2. A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps.

A corps operating with an army should consist of three divisions of the line, a brigade of artillery, and a regiment of cavalry. --Gen. Upton (U. S. Tactics. )

3. A body or code of laws. [Obs.]

The whole corps of the law. --Bacon.

4. (Eccl.) The land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed. [Obs.]

The prebendaries over and above their reserved rents have a corps. --Bacon.

Army corps, or (French) Corps d'arm['e]e (k[-o]r` d[aum]r`m[asl]"), a body containing two or more divisions of a large army, organized as a complete army in itself.

Corps de logis (k[-o]r` de l[-o]`zh[-e]") [F., body of the house], the principal mass of a building, considered apart from its wings.

Corps diplomatique (k?r d?`pl?`m?-t?k") [F., diplomatic body], the body of ministers or envoys accredited to a government.

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