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| Main Entry: |
corpus
 [kawr-puhs] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | body of text |
| Synonyms: | bulk, collection, compilation, complete works, core, entirety, extant works, mass, oeuvre, opera omnia, staple, substance, whole |
| Main Entry: | core |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | center, gist |
| Synonyms: | amount, base, basis, body, bottom line, bulk, burden, consequence, corpus, crux, essence, focus, foundation, heart, import, importance, kernel, main idea, mass, meat and potatoes, meat*, middle, midpoint, midst, nitty gritty, nub, nucleus, origin, pith, pivot, purport, quick, root, significance, staple, substance, thrust, upshot |
| Antonyms: | covering, exterior, exteriority, outside, perimeter, surface |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mass |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | body of matter; considerable portion |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, aggregate, assemblage, band, batch, block, bulk, bunch, chunk, clot, coagulation, collection, combination, concretion, conglomeration, core, corpus, crowd, entirety, gob, great deal, greater part, group, heap, horde, host, hunk, knot, lion's share, load, lot, lump, majority, mob, mound, mountain, much, number, object, peck, piece, pile, plurality, preponderance, pyramid, quantity, shock, stack, staple, stockpile, sum, sum total, throng, totality, troop, volume, wad, whole |
Example Sentences
- With this book, it has entered the corpus of social and art history.
- But it seems to me that the explosion of writing online in the past few years ought to provide a worthy corpus to work with.
- They added up to a corpus of civilization, a series whose import had real stakes.
| Main Entry: | physique |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | build of human body |
| Synonyms: | anatomy, body, built, character, configuration, constitution, corpus, figure, form, frame, habit, habitus, makeup, muscles, nature, shape, structure, type |
| Main Entry: | substance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entity, element |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animal, being, body, bulk, concreteness, core, corpus, fabric, force, hunk, individual, item, mass, material, matter, object, person, phenomenon, reality, something, staple, stuff, texture, thing |
| Main Entry: | substance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | essence, meaning |
| Synonyms: | ABCs, amount, basis, body, bottom, bottom line, brass tacks, burden, center, core, corpus, crux, drift, effect, essentiality, focus, general meaning, gist, gravamen, guts*, heart, import, innards, kernel, marrow, mass, matter, meat*, name of the game, nitty-gritty, nub, nuts and bolts, pith, point, purport, quintessence, sense, significance, soul, staple, strength, stuff, subject, sum total, tenor, theme, thrust, upshot, virtuality, way of it |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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