Corporal

Definition: Corporal

Corporal

Adjective

1. Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness".

2. Possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term".

Noun

1. A noncommissioned officer in the army or airforce or marines.

Date "corporal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Domain	Definition
Satire	CORPORAL, n. A man who occupies the lowest rung of the military ladder. Fiercely the battle raged and, sad to tell, Our corporal heroically fell! Fame from her height looked down upon the brawl And said: "He hadn't very far to fall." Giacomo Smith. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Public Administration	Non-officer personnel in category OR-4, UK Royal Air Force(1). Idem in US Air Force(2). Source: European Union. (references)
	Non-commissioned personnel, category OR-4(NATO), UK Army and US Army. Source: European Union. (references)
Slang in 1811	CORPORAL. To mount a corporal and four; to be guilty of onanism: the thumb is the corporal, the four fingers the privates. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A corporal is a soldier of the lowest military rank that may direct the activities of other soldiers, ranking above a private and below a sergeant. Typically a corporal's insignia consists of two chevrons.

Synonyms: Corporal

Synonyms: bodied (adj), bodily (adj), corporate (adj), corporeal (adj), embodied (adj), incarnate (adj), somatic (adj). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: sergeants (public administration, military & defense).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Master	Marshal, field marshal, marechal; general, generalissimo; commander in chief, seraskier, hetman; lieutenant general, major general; colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, centurion, skipper, lieutenant, first lieutenant, second lieutenant, sublieutenant, officer, staff officer, aide-de-camp, brigadier, brigade major, adjutant, jemidar, ensign, cornet, cadet, subaltern, noncommissioned officer, warrant officer; sergeant, sergeant major; color sergeant; corporal, corporal major; lance corporal, acting corporal; drum major; captain general, dizdar, knight marshal, naik, pendragon.
MATERIALITY	Adjective: material, bodily; corporeal, corporal; physical; somatic, somatoscopic; sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Corporal

English words defined with "corporal": beating, bodied, bodily, Bodily fear, Burse ♦ clean-cut, Corporal oath, Corporal punishment, Corporal's guard, Corporas, corporate, corporeal, Corporeal property ♦ drubbing ♦ embodied ♦ Full butt ♦ incarnate ♦ lacing, lance corporal, Lancepesade ♦ Naik ♦ sergeant, somatic, staff sergeant ♦ thrashing, trig, trim, trouncing ♦ Warrant officer, whacking. (references)

Specialty definitions using "corporal": BOARD ♦ Clever, Corporal Violet ♦ Foss ♦ Lance-Corporal, LEAPING OVER THE SWORD, Little Corporal ♦ pleonasm ♦ Smart. (references)

Etymologies containing "corporal": Incorporal. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Corporal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (carnal, corporal), Romanian (bodily, Corporal, corporeal, Pall, physical, substantial), Spanish (bodily, Corporal).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Hey Corporal, drop dead! (Saving Private Ryan; writing credit: Robert Rodat) Lance Corporal Dawson, Private First Class Downey: On the charge of murder, the members find the accused not guilty. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) I'm your host, Corporal Obengruppenfhurer Wolfcastle. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) So, tell me Corporal, are your intentions honorable? (Tunes of Glory; writing credit: James Kennaway) Colonel Potter, sir; Corporal Klinger. (MAS*H; writing credit: Larry Gelbart)
Movie/TV Titles	The Adventures of Corporal Kolchekov (1955) Corporal Hargrove? What Next (1945)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Beating the Devil Out of Them: Corporal Punishment in American Families (reference) Corporal in Charge (reference) Corporal Punishment in American Education: Readings in History, Practice, and Alternatives (reference) Languages of the Lash: Corporal Punishment and Identity in Imperial Russia (reference) Psicoanalisis Y Analisis Corporal De LA Relacion (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Elusive Corporal (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Corporal Blossom (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Photographed circa the 1880s or 1890s. As a U.S. Marine Corps Corporal, he served in USS Kearsarge during the Civil War, reportedly firing the first and last guns during her engagement with CSS Alabama on 19 June 1864. Credit: NAVY.		Presents the Purple Heart to Corporal John K. Galuszka, USMC, on board a hospital ship at Pearl Harbor, 17 December 1943. Corporal Galuszka had been wounded during the Gilberts Operation. Credit: NAVY.
	Corporal Isaiah Mays, half-length portrait, seated, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress.		Slowly, but accurately proceeded Corporal Legre. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Recruiting officer (to hesitating youth): a private gets fifty cents a day, a corporal gets sixty-five ... Credit: Library of Congress.		Soldiering in the Southwest--the rescue of Corporal Scott / Remington. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Crew members of a Marine torpedo bomber squadron lugging their own bags across the Okinawa airstrip as they arrive to start operations against the enemy] / Official U.S. Marine Corps p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Corporal William Beall..		The M-7 is the Army's newest tank destroyer and is being given the acid test for desert warfare in the maneuvers near Iron Mountains, California. Colonel R. Downing of DeKalb, Missouri, Corporal L. Roberts from Graham, Texas, and Lieutenant M. Hutchison,. Credit: Library of Congress.
	War production drive. Anthracite rallies. "I pledge allegiance to my flag..." Corporal Bennick led the crowd in the oath of allegiance at the rally for anthracite miners in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Anthracite miners' rallies were held in four Pennsylva. Credit: Library of Congress.		Corporal Jimmie Shohara has two ribbons: Good Behavior pre-Pearl Harbor, Rifle and Pistol Citations, 2 of 2, Manzanar Relocation Center, California. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	At Arney le Duc, a captain, he sabred ten cossacks, and saved, not his general, but his corporal.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		This form of treatment may not be appropriate in patients with severe penile corporal fibrosis, or severe medical illness. (references)
		This leads to expansion of the lacunar spaces and entrapment of blood by compressing venules against the tunica albuginea, a process referred to as the corporal veno-occlusive mechanism. (references)
		Prostaglandin E[sub 1] can be used together with papaverine and phentolamine to decrease the incidence of side effects such as pain, penile corporal fibrosis, fibrotic nodules, hypotension, and priapism. (references)
Children	Bolivia	Corporal punishment and verbal abuse are common in schools. (references)
	United Kingdom	Child welfare groups have called for all corporal punishment of children to be outlawed. (references)
	Haiti	In early September, Parliament passed a law banning corporal punishment against children. (references)
Human Rights	Central African Republic	On July 9, USP guards interrogated and reportedly killed Corporal Chef Alfred Kokassa, also a Yakoma. (references)
	Cote d'Ivoire	On March 16, an antiriot police patrol killed Army Corporal Any Djedje Toussaint in Cocody-II Plateaux. (references)
	Qatar	The Government administers most corporal punishment prescribed by Islamic law but does not allow amputation. (references)
Minorities	Canada	Provincial authorities had warned the Church of God for several months previously that such severe corporal punishment could constitute child abuse. (references)
Political Economy	Haiti	The Parliament passed a law outlawing corporal punishment against children. (references)
Women	Botswana	By law the minimum sentence for rape is 10 years, with the minimum increasing to 15 years with corporal punishment if the offender is HIV-positive, and to 20 years with corporal punishment if the offender knew of his or her HIV status. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Corporal Gregory Depestre went to Haiti as part of his adopted country's force to help secure democracy in his native land.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Corporal" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 42.83% of the time. "Corporal" is used about 473 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 (proper)	42.83%	203	21,393
Noun (singular)	31.43%	149	25,810
Adjective (general or positive)	25.74%	122	29,069
Total	100.00%	473	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "corporal" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Corporal	Last name	100	86,501
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "corporal": Corporal oath ♦ corporal punishment ♦ Lance Corporal ♦ Ship's corporal ♦ the Little Corporal. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "corporal": corporal-armourer.
	Ending with "corporal": chief-corporal, lance-corporal.
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 "corporal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Trupor (bodily, constitutional, corporeal, fleshly, fleshy, physical), Tetar (lance corporal). (various references)

Arabic		‏قماش القربان, ‏عريف رتبة عسكرية, ‏جسدي (bodily, carnal, corporeal, glandule, material, physical, sensual, somatic), ‏بدني (physical). (various references)

Bulgarian		Антиминс, Ефрейтор, Телесен. (various references)

Chinese		伍长. (various references)

Czech		Tìlesný (bodily, carnal, corporeal, physical), Kaprál, Desátník. (various references)

Dutch		korporaal (Lance Corporal, Leading Rating, Petty Officer Third Class, Private First Class, seaman). (various references)

Esperanto		korpa (bodily, body, body-, corporeal, of the body, physical), kaporalo. (various references)

Faeroese		korporálur. (various references)

Farsi		سرجوخه(نظ.), جسمی (Carnal, Corporeal, Material, Substantial), بدنی (Bodily, Corporeal, Physical). (various references)

Finnish		ruumiillinen (bodily, physical), korpraali. (various references)

French		Corporel (corporeal), caporal-chef. (various references)

Frisian		lichaamlik (bodily, body, body-, corporeal, of the body, physical). (various references)

German		Unteroffizier (Nco, non commissioned officer, noncom, non-commissioned officer, sergeant), Korporal. (various references)

Greek		Σωματικόσ, �"εκανέασ, �"εκανεύσ, �"ίοποσ. (various references)

Hebrew		ֲופ� י, ״ב ָוראי. (various references)

Hungarian		Tizedes (airman first class, denary, exterminator, leading seaman, rack, would to heaven), Testi (bodily, carnal, corporeal, fleshly, flogging, material, physical, sensual, somatical), Káplár. (various references)

Indonesian		kopral. (various references)

Italian		Corporale (bodily, corporeal), Caporale (guard, overman, overseer), Personale (figure, person, personal, personnel, private, staff). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		肉�"的 , 伍長 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		にくたいてき, �"ちょう (accent, note, tone, word-length). (various references)

Korean		상�"�병. (various references)

Manx		corpral, corpagh (bodily, incarnate, physical), callinagh (bodily, constitutional, physical). (various references)

Pig Latin		orporalcay

Portuguese		cabo (bight, cape, cord, end, flex, foreland, grip, gripe, guy, hand, handle, headland, helve, hilt, hokum, hook, hub, knob, leg pull, naze, non-com, non-commissioned officer, preventer, rope, stock, tail). (various references)

Romanian		Corporal (bodily, corporeal, Pall, physical, substantial), Caporal, Cãprar (goatherd), Trupesc (bodily, burly, carnal, corporeal, earthy, fleshly, sensuous). (various references)

Russian		Капрал, Физический, Телесный. (various references)

Scottish		coirpileir (a corporal). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		telesni (bodily, carnal, corporeal, hylic, personal, physical), oltarski čaršav, korporalni, kaplar, desetar. (various references)

Spanish		Corporal (bodily), Castigo Corporal (corporal punishment), Cabo (cable, Cape, end, ply, point, rope, sergeant, serjeant, stub, stump, tag, tag end, tail, termination, tip), De Cabo. (various references)

Swedish		Kroppslig (bodily, body, body-, corporeal, fleshly, of the body, personal, physical), Korpral (lance corporal, lance sergeant, sergeant). (various references)

Thai		ยศสิบตรี (lance corporal). (various references)

Turkish		Onbaşı (non commissioned officer, noncom, noncommissioned officer), Bedensel (bodily, carnal, corporeal, fleshly, gestic, material, organic, physical, sensual, somatic), bedení (bodily, body, body-, corporeal, of the body, physical). (various references)

Ukrainian		Плотський, Капрал, Тілесний. (various references)

Vietnamese		cai, riêng (characteristic, distinct, individual, peculiar, private, privy, sui generis). (various references)

Welsh		corfforol (bodily, corporeal). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	caput, corporalis, corporeus. (various references)
Italian	900-Modern	caporale. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "corporal": corporalities, corporality, corporally, corporals. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Corporal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acropora, carpral, coporal, Corozal, corploral, Corpoal, corporat, corporel, corporial, corporic, corporral, Corpral, Torporley. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "corporal" (pronounced kô"rperul or kô"rprul)
4	-p er u l	temporal.
3	-er u l	admiral, agricultural, architectural, behavioral, bilateral, collateral, countercultural, cultural, doctoral, doggerel, electoral, ephemeral, federal, femoral, funeral, Gen, general, guttural, horticultural, humoral, inaugural, intercultural, lateral, liberal, literal, littoral, mackerel, mayoral, mineral, multicultural, multilateral, natural, neoliberal, nomenclatural, nonagricultural, numeral, pastoral, pectoral, peripheral, pickerel, postdoctoral, prefectural, procedural, scriptural, sculptural, sectoral, structural, supernatural, trilateral, unilateral, unnatural, visceral.
3	-r u l	amoral, ancestral, antiviral, apparel, astral, aural, auroral, austral, Balmoral, barrel, Beryl, boral, Carle, Carol, carrel, cathedral, central, cerebral, choral, coral, feral, floral, gambrel, goral, immoral, imperil, integral, intramural, laurel, Loral, minstrel, mistral, mitral, moral, mural, neural, neutral, nostril, octahedral, oral, orchestral, peril, plural, quarrel, rural, scoundrel, several, Sorel, Sorrel, spiral, sterile, tetrahedral, ventral, vertebral, viral, virile.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-l-o-o-p-r-r"
	-1 letter: carpool, corpora.
	-2 letters: corral, parlor.
	-3 letters: carol, claro, color, copal, copra, coral, orlop, parol, polar.
	-4 letters: arco, calo, capo, carl, carp, carr, clap, clop, coal, cola, cool, coop, crap, crop, loca, loco, loop, opal, oral, orca, orra, parr, poco, polo, pool, poor, prao, proa, roar.
	-5 letters: alp, arc, cap, car, col, coo, cop, cor, lac.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-l-o-o-p-r-r"
	+1 letter: carpooler, corporals, corporeal.
	+2 letters: carpoolers, corporally, percolator, proctorial.
	+3 letters: corporality, corporately, corporeally, incorporeal, percolators, predoctoral, proconsular, protectoral.
	+4 letters: corporeality, incorporable, orographical, velociraptor.
	+5 letters: corporalities, corporealness, fluorographic, incorporeally, nonreciprocal, polarographic, precopulatory, procuratorial, prosecutorial, velociraptors.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
corporal punishment	719	corporal mercy works	14
corporal lenguaje	76	corporal mortification	14
corporal	55	caning corporal punishment	12
corporal punishment in school	49	corporal judicial punishment	12
corporal expresion	42	corporal punishment woman	12
corporal de indice masa	42	corporal expresión	11
eczema corporal	38	corporal issue punishment	11
corporal punishment spanking	36	lance corporal	11
corporal female punishment	33	corporal expressão	11
school corporal punishment	33	corporal terapia	11
corporal picture punishment	32	corporal indice masa	10
corporal higiene	26	corporal temperatura	10
corporal punishment story	24	corporal postura	10
arte corporal	23	corporal mecanica	10
corporal pro punishment	22	corporal discipline domestic	9
corporal syndrome tunnel	18	history of corporal punishment	9
corporal punishment video	18	composição corporal	9
corporal tunnel	17	alternative corporal punishment	8
corporal linguagem	17	corporal male punishment	8
corporal imagen	16	corporal estetica	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Corporal

Definition: Corporal

Corporal

Adjective

Noun

Specialty Definition: Corporal

Specialty Definition: Corporal

Synonyms: Corporal

Synonyms within Context: Corporal

Master

MATERIALITY

Crosswords: Corporal

Modern Usage: Corporal

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Corporal

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

Image Slideshow: Corporal

Photos:Corporal

Illustrations:Corporal

Photo Album: Corporal

Use in Literature: Corporal

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Corporal

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Corporal

Bill Clinton

Usage Frequency: Corporal

Name Usage Frequency: Corporal

Expressions: Corporal

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Corporal

Modern Translation: Corporal

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Ancestral Language Translations: Corporal

Derivations & Misspellings: Corporal

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Corporal"

Anagrams: Corporal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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