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Corporeal

Definition: Corporeal

Corporeal

Adjective

1. Having material or physical form or substance; "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett.

2. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "corporeal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)


Synonyms: Corporeal

Synonyms: bodily (adj), corporal (adj), material (adj), somatic (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: incorporeal (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Corporeal

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Animality

Noun: animal life; animation, animality, animalization; animalness, corporeal nature, human system; breath.

Adjective: fleshly,human, corporeal.

MATERIALITY

Adjective: material, bodily; corporeal, corporal; physical; somatic, somatoscopic; sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial.

Property

Landed property, landed real estate property; realty; land, lands; tenements; hereditaments; corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments; acres; ground; (earth); acquest, messuage, toft.

Substantiality

Adjective: substantive, substantial; hypostatic; personal, bodily, tangible; (material); corporeal.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Corporeal

English words defined with "corporeal": Corporal punishment, CorporeityFeoffmentHylicImbody, Immateriallymaterial, Material evidenceRent serviceTo let beVariety hybrid. (references)
Specialty definitions using "corporeal": Rosicrucians. (references)
Etymologies containing "corporeal": Omnicorporeal. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Corporeal

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ad Infinitum-- The Ghost in Turing's Machine: Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back in: An Essay in Corporeal Semiotics (reference)

  • Corporeal Generosity: On Giving With Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas (Suny Series in Gender Theory) (reference)

  • Corporeal Player's Guide: In Nomine (reference)

  • Physical Being: A Theory for a Corporeal Psychology (reference)

  • Social Policy and the Body: Transitions in Corporeal Discourse (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Corporeal

"Corporeal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Corporeal" is used about 44 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4451,500

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Corporeal

Expressions using "corporeal": corporeal needs Corporeal property. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Corporeal

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

corporeal essay free imagination

10

extra corporeal shock wave therapy

3

corporeal imagination

2

corporeal punishment

2

corporeal

2

corporeal extreme punishment

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Corporeal

Language Translations for "corporeal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

trupor (bodily, constitutional, Corporal, fleshly, fleshy, physical), fizik (bodily, carnal, constitution, physical). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مادي (bodily, concrete, earthly, material, materialistic, not abstract, physical, real, substantial, tangible), ‏عيني (concrete, ophthalmic, optic), ‏جسدي (bodily, carnal, corporal, glandule, material, physical, sensual, somatic). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

телесен (bodily, carnal, fleshly, material, physical, somatic), веществен (fleshly, material, substantive, tangible), осезаем (palpable, perceivable, perceptible, phenomenal, sensible, tactile, tangible). (various references)

   

Czech

  

tìlesný (bodily, carnal, Corporal, physical). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

lichamelýk (bodily, body, body-, corporal, of the body, physical), lýfelýk (bodily, body, body-, corporal, of the body, physical). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

korpa (bodily, body, body-, corporal, of the body, physical). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مادی (Earthen, Material, Physical, Worldly), جسمی (Carnal, Corporal, Material, Substantial), جسمانی (Bodily, Carnal, Earthen, Material, Physical, Sensual, Worldly), دارای ماده , بدنی (Bodily, Corporal, Physical). (various references)

   

French

  

corporel (Corporal). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

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

   

German

  

körperlich (bodily, carnal, constitutionally, Corporal, corporally, manual, manual work, material, personal, physical, physically, somatic). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σωματικόσ (able bodied, bodily, constitutional, physical, somatic), υλικόσ (material, physical). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חמרי (earthly, material, materialistic), 'ופ י (material, physical), 'שמי (bodily, earthly, material, mundane, physical, worldly). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

testi (bodily, carnal, Corporal, fleshly, flogging, material, physical, sensual, somatical), fizikai (bodily, material, physical, physical aspects, somatic), anyagi (financial, logistic, logistical, material, pecuniary, substantial, substantive). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

memenuhi kebutuhan badan. (various references)

   

Italian

  

corporeo (bodily), materiale (data, equipment, material, materials, materiel, matter, physical, stuff), fisico (bodily, body, natural, physical, physicist). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

有" (tangible). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ゆうたい (bowing out, ethereal body, hospitality, mailbag, preferential treatment, retiring voluntarily, tangible, warm reception, welcome). (various references)

   

Manx

  

nheeoil. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orporealcay

   

Portuguese

  

corpóreo (bodiced, bodily, corporal, fleshly, physical), material (brutish, data, gear, incarnate, material, materialistic, metals, physical, stuff, worldly). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

corporal (bodily, Corporal, Pall, physical, substantial), trupesc (bodily, burly, carnal, Corporal, earthy, fleshly, sensuous), material (cloth, copy, earthly, economic, fabric, financial, mass, material, matter, palpable, physical, real, sensual, stuff, substantial, tissue), fizic (appearance, bodily, body, concrete, figure, outer, personal, physical, physique). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

материальный (hylic, material, tangible). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

corporra. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

telesni (bodily, carnal, corporal, hylic, personal, physical), opipljiv (material, palpable, tangible, touchable), materijalni. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

corpóreo (corporal), tangible (tangible). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kroppslig (bodily, body, body-, corporal, fleshly, of the body, personal, physical). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

maddi (concrete, earthbound, earthly, earthy, material, materialistic, matter of fact, pecuniary, physical, tangible, temporal, worldly), maddesel (concrete, material, physical), bedensel (bodily, carnal, Corporal, fleshly, gestic, material, organic, physical, sensual, somatic), bedení (bodily, body, body-, corporal, of the body, physical). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

фізичний (bodily, carnal, natural, physic, physical), тілесний (bodily, carnal, fleshly, physical, somatic), матеріальний (earthen, economical, fleshly, material, physical, tangible). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

cụ thể (concrete, concretely, material), vật chất (materially). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

corfforol (bodily, corporal). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Corporeal

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

corporalis, corporeus. (various references)

Avestan200-600

astvaiñti. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Corporeal

Derivations

Words beginning with "corporeal": corporealities, corporeality, corporeally, corporealness, corporealnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "corporeal": extracorporeal, incorporeal. (additional references)

Words containing "corporeal": extracorporeally, incorporeally. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Corporeal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: corporel, corporial, corporral, corpreal, morporkean. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Corporeal"

Words rhyming with "corporeal" (pronounced 'Cor*po"re*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Corporeal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carpooler.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-o-o-p-r-r"

-1 letter: corporal.

-2 letters: caroler, carpool, colorer, corpora, peroral, precool, recolor.

-3 letters: carpel, carper, carrel, coaler, cooler, cooper, corral, looper, oracle, parcel, parlor, parole, parrel, placer, poorer, recoal.

-4 letters: caper, carer, carle, carol, ceorl, claro, clear, color, cooer, copal, coper, copra, coral, corer, crape, crore, lacer, loper, ocrea, opera, orlop, pacer, paler, pareo, parer, parle, parol.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-o-o-p-r-r"
 

+1 letter: carpoolers, percolator.

 

+2 letters: corporately, corporeally, incorporeal, percolators, predoctoral, protectoral.

 

+3 letters: corporeality, incorporable, velociraptor.

 

+4 letters: corporalities, corporealness, incorporeally, nonreciprocal, precopulatory, prosecutorial, velociraptors.

 

+5 letters: chlorpromazine, chlorpropamide, contemporarily, corporealities, extracorporeal, nonreciprocals.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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