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corpus

/ˈkɔːpəs/

An illustration for corpus

noun

a body; in linguistics: a body of words

  • “This is a corpus of example sentences in various languages.”Tatoeba
  • “Computer-generated sentences defeat the purpose of a linguistic corpus.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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