corps

[ kawr ]
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noun,plural corps [kawrz]. /kɔrz/.
  1. Military.

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

    • Also called army corps . 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.

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

  2. Obsolete. corpse.

Origin of corps

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First recorded in 1225–75; Middle English corps, cors, from Middle French, from Latin corpus “body”; see also corpse

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corps

/ (kɔː) /


nounplural corps (kɔːz)
  1. a military formation that comprises two or more divisions and additional support arms

  2. a military body with a specific function: intelligence corps; medical corps

  1. a body of people associated together: the diplomatic corps

Origin of corps

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C18: from French, from Latin corpus body

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