Corpse

Definition: Corpse

Corpse

Noun

1. The dead body of a human being.

Date "corpse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To dream of a corpse is fatal to happiness, as this dream indicates sorrowful tidings of the absent, and gloomy business prospects. The young will suffer many disappointments and pleasure will vanish. To see a corpse placed in its casket, denotes immediate troubles to the dreamer. To see a corpse in black, denotes the violent death of a friend or some desperate business entanglement. To see a battle-field strewn with corpses, indicates war and general dissatisfaction between countries and political factions. To see the corpse of an animal, denotes unhealthy situation, both as to business and health. To see the corpse of any one of your immediate family, indicates death to that person, or to some member of the family, or a serious rupture of domestic relations, also unusual business depression. For lovers it is a sure sign of failure to keep promises of a sacred nature. To put money on the eyes of a corpse in your dreams, denotes that you will see unscrupulous enemies robbing you while you are powerless to resent injury. If you only put it on one eye you will be able to recover lost property after an almost hopeless struggle. For a young woman this dream denotes distress and loss by unfortunately giving her confidence to designing persons. For a young woman to dream that the proprietor of the store in which she works is a corpse, and she sees while sitting up with him that his face is clean shaven, foretells that she will fall below the standard of perfection in which she was held by her lover. If she sees the head of the corpse falling from the body, she is warned of secret enemies who, in harming her, will also detract from the interest of her employer. Seeing the corpse in the store, foretells that loss and unpleasantness will offset all concerned. There are those who are not conscientiously doing the right thing. There will be a gloomy outlook for peace and prosperous work. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Corpse

Synonyms: cadaver (n), clay (n), remains (n), stiff (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Corpse	Noun: corpse, corse, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton, dry bones; defunct, relics, reliquiae, remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay; mummy; carrion; food for worms, food for fishes; tenement of clay this mortal coil.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) I got a problem with a corpse. (Con Air; writing credit: Scott Michael Rosenberg.) I doubt they've ever had a patient who fell in love with a corpse. (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler) Bad corpse! Stop scaring Smithers! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) You beat up her corpse! (Igby Goes Down; writing credit: Burr Steers)
Lyrics	Red as a newborn white as a corpse (Promise; performing artist: Eve 6)
Movie/TV Titles	I Spit on Your Corpse! (1974) The Corpse Grinders (1972) Curse of the Living Corpse (1964) The Diplomatic Corpse (1958) I Piss On Your Grave I Spit On Your Corpse (2001)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	C Is for Corpse (reference) Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets and the Life of a Corpse After Death (reference) Corpse Candle (reference) Sue Grafton's ABC Mystery Collection: 'A' Is for Alibi/'B' Is for Burglar/'C' Is for Corpse (Alphabet Mystery Series) [ABRIDGED] (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Brother Cadfael Series 1 Box Set: The Sanctuary Sparrow, One Corpse Too Many, Monk's Hood and The Leper of St. Giles (reference) The Corpse Vanishes (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	...Your Bloated Corpse Has Washed Ashore [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) Corpse Grinder (reference) Lucas shine & his exquisite corpse (reference) Grating Into Corpse [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Corpse Killer (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[Grave robber flees from a corpse that has come to life]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		A galvanized corpse. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Amsterdam, Netherlands. A Dutch father, who had been severely wounded in his head, hand, and leg, stares in horror at the mutilated corpse of his little girl. Credit: Library of Congress.		A dead millionaire at Kiakhta showing the method of laying out a corpse. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Decomposing corpse of man with swastika arm band in Dresden, Germany, after the fire bombing during World War II]. Credit: Library of Congress.		Burned corpse of slave laborer. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Charred corpse of a victim of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Charles Dickens	He would make a lovely corpse.
Minna Antrim	The ''Green-eyed Monster'' causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
St. Joannes Chrysostomus	The drunken man is a living corpse.
Winston Churchill	Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a sheperd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The man who was walking bent over was an old convict, and what he was carrying upon his shoulders was a corpse.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Nail it down into a wooden box, the corpse.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The heat goes out of it like the living heat that leaves a corpse.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Cote d'Ivoire	His corpse was discovered in an Abidjan mortuary 3 days after his arrest. (references)
	Armenia	On December 7, the Procurator General Aram Tamazian, acknowledged that the corpse and injures were consistent with torture. (references)
	Iraq	Many persons are taken away in front of family members, who hear nothing further until days, months, or years later, when they are told to retrieve the often-mutilated corpse of their relative. (references)
Minorities	Switzerland	Four of his companions (all between 17 and 22 years of age) admitted to killing von Marcel and disposing of his corpse in Thun Lake. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Corpse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.01% of the time. "Corpse" is used about 809 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.01%	801	8,677
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.49%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	0.37%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.12%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	809	N/A

Expressions using "corpse": a walking corpse ♦ Corpse candle ♦ Corpse gate ♦ corpse like ♦ examine a corpse. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "corpse": corpse-baggers, corpse-candles, corpse-dressers, corpse-flies, corpse-holding, corpse-like, corpse-reeking, corpse-strewn, corpse-veil.
	Ending with "corpse": albatross-corpse, christ-corpse.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "corpse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		lyk (appear, appear to be, cadaver, look, seem). (various references)

Albanian		kufomë (body, cadaver, clod, stiff). (various references)

Arabic		‏جيفة (cadaver, carrion), ‏جثمان (remain), ‏جثة (body, cadaver, carcass, dead body, remain, stiff). (various references)

Bulgarian		труп (body, cadaver, carcase, corpus, log, nog, stiff, subject, torso, trunk). (various references)

Chinese		踣 (prostrate), 尸�", 尸 , 屍�" (body), 屍 . (various references)

Czech		umrlec, mrtvola (body, cadaver, carcass). (various references)

Danish		lig (equal, even, level). (various references)

Dutch		lijk (cadaver), kreng (cadaver, carrion), kadaver (cadaver, carrion). (various references)

Esperanto		kadavro (cadaver). (various references)

Faeroese		ræ (cadaver), lík (cadaver). (various references)

Farsi		نعش , لاشه (Bier, Body, Cadaver, Carcase, Carrion), جسد (Bier, Body, Carcase). (various references)

Finnish		ruumis (body, cadaver). (various references)

French		cadavre. (various references)

German		Leiche (body, cadaver, carcass, corpus delicti, dead bodies, dead body, stiff). (various references)

Greek		πτώμα (cadaver, carcass). (various references)

Hebrew		מת (dead, deseased, dying), פ�'ר (cadaver, carcass, carrion), �'וי�" (body, cadaver, dead body), �'ופ�" (body, cadaver). (various references)

Hungarian		tetem (body, cadaver, carcase, carcass, corpus, dead body), hulla (body, cadaver, carcase, carcass, carrion, dead body, stiff). (various references)

Indonesian		mayat (body, carcass, stiff), batang (log, pole, rod, stem, stick, trunk), bangkai (carcass, carrion, fuselage). (various references)

Italian		salma (body, dead body), cadavere (body, cadaver, dead body). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		遺骸 (remains), 遺�" (remains), 躯 (body), 亡骸 (remains), 死骸 (body, remains), 死人 (dead person), 死�" , 死屍 , 尸 , 屍骸 (body, remains), 屍 , コー�'ー豆 (call, call broker, call girl, call loan, call money, call rate, call sign, call-back, called, called game, choir exercises, chorus, chorus girl, coal tar, coffee bean, Cohen, cola, cold, cold beef, cold chain, cold chicken, cold coffee, cold cream, cold meat, cold permanent wave, cold war, cold wave, coleslaw, coop, coral, coral island, cord, corded velveteen, corduroy, corporate identity, corporated house, corporation, Koran). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		したい (body, cadaver, detached force, figure, form, limbs, members, style, task force), しがい (body, city, city tax, outside the city area, remains, suburbs, the streets, town, ultraviolet, urban areas, UV), なきがら (remains), しびと (dead person), しに�" (dead person), しかばね, しし (extremities, heir, historical poem, limbs, lion, market storehouse, patriot, public-spirited person, relying on someone as one's teacher, store), いたい (clothes and obi, different body, full court dress, painful, remains), いがい (excepting, remains, surprising, unexpected, with the exception of), コープス , むくろ (body). (various references)

Korean		시체 (Carcass, Carcasses). (various references)

Manx		oll, corp (body, hull, physique, solid, trunk of tree). (various references)

Norwegian		lik (equal, even, level, like). (various references)

Papiamen		kadaver (cadaver). (various references)

Pig Latin		orpsecay

Portuguese		cadáver (body, cadaver). (various references)

Romanian		corp (body, bone, carcas, corporation, corps, corpus, frame, head, housing), cadavru (body, corpus, corse, dead body, stiff), mortãciune, leş (corpus, offal). (various references)

Russian		труп (body, cadaver, dead body, stiff). (various references)

Scottish		corp (a body, body), cairis. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		leš (body, cadaver, stiff). (various references)

Spanish		cadáver (body, cadaver, carcass, carrion, casualty, stiff). (various references)

Swedish		lik (after the fashion of, cadaver, carcase, corpus, dead man, equal, even, level, like, out, similar, stiff). (various references)

Turkish		ceset (body, cadaver, carcase, carcass, dead body, mortal remains, necro-, stiff), kadavra (cadaver, carcase, carcass, dead body, subject), ölü (carcass, casualty, dead, deceased, defunct, exanimate, inanimate, late, lifeless, stiff, stone-dead, the dead). (various references)

Turkmen		meяit (cadaver, dead body), maslyk (cadaver, dead body), lдsh (body, carcass). (various references)

Ukrainian		убити (bump off, out, smite), труп (body, cadaver, carcass). (various references)

Vietnamese		xác chết, thi h� i (lich, lych, lyke). (various references)

Welsh		celain (dead body, stiff), dynin (carcass), abar. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	adda. (various references)
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	ptoma. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cadaver, cadavera, cadavere, cadaveribus, cadaveris, cadaverum, corpus, corpus corporis, corpus, corporis, funere, funeris, mors, morte, mortem, mortes, morti, mortibus, mortis, mortui, mortuique, mortuis, mortuisque, mortuo, mortuorum, mortuos, mortuum, mortuus, mortuusque, somes. (various references)
Avestan	200-600	kehrp. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Mark Chapter 6, Verse 29
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai akousanteV oi maqhtai autou hlqon kai hran to ptwma autou kai eqhkan auto en tw mnhmeiw
Latin	405	Vulgate	Quo audito discipuli eius venerunt et tulerunt corpus eius et posuerunt illud in monumento
Old English	990	West Saxon	Ða his cnihtes þæt ge-herden. hyocomen & his lichame namen & hine on berigeneleigdon.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And whanne this thing was herd, hise disciplis camen, and token his bodi, and leiden it in a biriel.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And when his disciples hearde of it they came and toke vp his body and put it in a toumbe.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And when his disciples had news of it, they came and took up his body, and put it in its last resting-place.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Mark Chapter 6, Verse 29
Cebuano	Ug sa pagkadungog niini sa mga tinun-an ni Juan, nangadto sila ug gikuha nila ang iyang lawas ug gipahiluna kini sa usa ka lubnganan.
Croatian	Kad za to doèuše Ivanovi uèenici, doðu, uzmu njegovo tijelo i polože ga u grob.
Danish	Og da hans Disciple hørte det, kom de og toge hans Lig og lagde det i en Grav.
Dutch	En als zijn discipelen dit hoorden, gingen zij en namen zijn dood lichaam weg, en legden dat in een graf.
Finnish	Kun hänen opetuslapsensa sen kuulivat, tulivat he ja ottivat hänen ruumiinsa ja panivat sen hautaan.
French	Les disciples de Jean, ayant appris cela, vinrent prendre son corps, et le mirent dans un sépulcre.
Gaelic	Nuair chuala a dheisciopuil so, thainig iad, `s thug iad leo a chorp, agus chuir iad ann an uaigh e.
German	Und da das seine Jünger hörten, kamen sie und nahmen seinen Leib, und legten ihn in ein Grab.
Hungarian	A tanítványai pedig, a mikor ezt meghallották vala, eljövének, és elvivék a testét, és sírba tevék.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Ketika pengikut-pengikut Yohanes mendengar hal itu, mereka pergi mengambil jenazah Yohanes, lalu menguburkannya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Setelah kedengaran hal itu kepada murid-murid Yahya, datanglah mereka itu mengambil mayatnya, lalu ditaruhkannya di dalam kubur.
Italian	I discepoli di Giovanni, saputa la cosa, vennero, ne presero il cadavere e lo posero in un sepolcro.
Maori	A, no ka rongo ana akonga, ka haere mai ka tangohia tona tinana, a whakatakotoria ana ki te urupa.
Norwegian	Og da hans disipler hørte det, kom de og tok hans legeme og la det i en grav.
Portuguese	Quando os seus discípulos ouviram isso, vieram, tomaram o seu corpo e o puseram num sepulcro.
Rumanian	Ucenicii lui Ioan, cknd au auzit acest lucru, au venit de i-au ridicat trupul, wi l-au pus kntr`un mormknt.
Russian	хЮЕОЙЛЙ ЕЗП, ХУМЩЫБЧ, � ТЙЫМЙ Й ЧЪСМЙ ФЕМП ЕЗП, Й � ПМПЦЙМЙ ЕЗП ЧП ЗТП�'Е.
Shuar	Juan maamun antukar ni unuiniamuri ni ayashin iwiarsatai tusar Júkiarmiayi.
Spanish	Cuando sus discípulos oyeron esto, fueron y tomaron su cuerpo, y lo pusieron en un sepulcro.
Swahili	Wanafunzi wa Yohane walipopata habari, walikwenda wakachukua mwili wake, wakauzika kaburini.
Swedish	Men när hans lärjungar fingo höra härom, kommo de och togo hans döda kropp och lade den i en grav.
Uma	Kara'epe-na topetuku' -na Yohanes kamate-nami, hilou-ramo-rawo mpo'ala' woto-na, pai' ratana.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "corpse": corpses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "corpse": incorpse. (additional references)
	Words containing "corpse": incorpsed, incorpses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Corpse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: copres, Copsa, Copsi, corpsed, corpusel, corsa, corse, Cropsey, cropsu, Curphey, Korosec, korps, korpse. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "corpse" (pronounced kô"rps)
4	-ô" r p s	warps.
3	-r p s	harps, sharps, tarps.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: copers.
	Words within the letters "c-e-o-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: ceros, coper, copes, copse, cores, corps, corse, crops, pores, poser, prose, repos, ropes, scope, score, spore.
	-2 letters: ceps, cero, cope, cops, core, cors, crop, epos, eros, opes, orcs, ores, pecs, peso, pore, pose, pros, recs, repo, reps, rocs, roes, rope, rose, scop, sore, spec.
	-3 letters: cep, cop, cor, cos, ers, oes, ope, ops.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-o-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: coopers, copiers, coppers, copters, corpses, crepons, croupes, forceps, porches, process, prosect, recoups, scooper.
	+2 letters: capsomer, chompers, choppers, compares, compeers, comperes, composer, compress, comprise, conspire, copperas, corpsmen, corpuses, couplers, coverups, cropless, croppers, croppies, crowstep, cupreous, exocarps, forcipes, incorpse, mesocarp, necropsy, percoids, poachers, postrace, pouncers, precious, precodes, precooks, precools, prefocus, prescore, proceeds, procures, produces, projects, prosects, prospect, protects, recopies, scoopers, scorepad, scrooped, sprocket, supercop.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
cannibal corpse	1,010	cannibal corpse pic	15
1000 corpse house	725	1000 corpse house picture	15
corpse	266	1000 corpse house lyrics	14
corpse house thousand	149	angel corpse	14
cannibal corpse lyrics	78	1000 corpse house review	13
exquisite corpse	60	cannibal corpse mp3	13
cannible corpse	44	bass cannibal corpse tab	12
corpse picture	41	100 corpse house	12
1000 corpse dvd house	38	1000 corpse house trailer	12
corpse photo	28	1000 corpse house rob zombie	10
1,000 corpse house	27	1000 corpse dvd house release	9
cannibal corpse tab	27	cannibal corpse wallpaper	9
1000 corpse house soundtrack	22	corpse dead	9
corpse flower	19	cannibal corpse t shirt	9
1000 corpse house pic	17	1000 2 corpse house	8
cannibal corpse picture	17	corpse rotting	8
cannibal corpse discography	17	celebrity corpse	8
1000 corpse house movie	16	cannibal corpse.com	8
1000 corpse	16	cannibal corpse official	8
corpse sex	15	corpse nude	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Corpse

Definition: Corpse

Corpse

Noun

Specialty Definition: Corpse

Synonyms: Corpse

Synonyms within Context: Corpse

Corpse

Crosswords: Corpse

Modern Usage: Corpse

Screenplays

Lyrics

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Corpse

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

Image Slideshow: Corpse

Photos:Corpse

Illustrations:Corpse

Photo Album: Corpse

Familiar Quotations: Corpse

Charles Dickens

Minna Antrim

St. Joannes Chrysostomus

Winston Churchill

Use in Literature: Corpse

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Non-Fiction Usage: Corpse

Usage Frequency: Corpse

Expressions: Corpse

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Corpse

Modern Translation: Corpse

Afrikaans

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Faeroese

Farsi

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Manx

Norwegian

Papiamen

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Scottish

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Turkmen

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Welsh

Ancestral Language Translations: Corpse

Bible Trace: Corpse

Matched Bible Translations: Corpse

Photos:
Corpse

Illustrations:
Corpse