body

Noun

1. (countable) Physical frame.
2. (countable, uncountable) Physical frame.
3. (countable) Physical frame.
4. (countable, uncountable) Physical frame.
5. (countable, uncountable) Physical frame.
6. (countable, uncountable) Main section.
7. (countable, uncountable) Main section.
8. (countable, uncountable) Main section.
9. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Main section.
10. (countable, uncountable) Main section.
11. (countable, uncountable) Main section.
12. (countable, uncountable) Main section.
13. (countable, uncountable) Coherent group.
14. (countable, uncountable) Coherent group.
15. (countable, uncountable) Coherent group.
16. (countable) Material entity.
17. (uncountable) Material entity.
18. (uncountable) Material entity.
19. (countable, uncountable) Material entity.
20. (countable, uncountable) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
21. (countable, uncountable) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.

Verb

1. (often, transitive) To give body or shape to something.
2. To construct the bodywork of a car.
3. (transitive) To embody.
4. (slang, transitive) To murder someone.
5. (broadly, slang, transitive) To murder someone.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɒdi/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: bodi

Inherited from Old English: bodiġ

Cognate with Old High German: botah

Cognate with Swabian: Bottich

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ-
Proto-West Germanic *bodag
Old English bodiġ
Middle English bodi
English body
From Middle English body, bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”). Cognate with Old High German botah (“body, corpse, trunk, torso”) (whence Swabian Bottich (“body, torso”), Bavarian Bottich (“body, torso, carcass; lower part of a shirt or jacket”)).

Synonyms

corpse

trunk

torso

flesh

🥩

physique

cadaver

figure

dead body

form

carcass

frame

group

remains

substance

shape

stiff

mass

human body

party

🥳

corpus

object

class

skin

person

🧑‍🦱

crowd

clay

unit

build

organ

swarm

stem

soma

skeleton

accumulation

stature

self

organic structure

company

bodysuit

matter

team

band

heap

pile

dead person

organization

consistency

constitution

corps

oneself

Translations

corps

Körper

cuerpo

corpo

corpo

cos

σώμα

ciało

lichaam

Leib

Leiche

cadavre

cadáver

corpus

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