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Definition: Corporeal |
CorporealAdjective1. 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: CorporealSynonyms: bodily (adj), corporal (adj), material (adj), somatic (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: incorporeal (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Corporeal |
| English words defined with "corporeal": Corporal punishment, Corporeity ♦ Feoffment ♦ Hylic ♦ Imbody, Immaterially ♦ material, Material evidence ♦ Rent service ♦ To let be ♦ Variety hybrid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "corporeal": Rosicrucians. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "corporeal": Omnicorporeal. (references) |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 44 | 51,500 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "corporeal": corporeal needs ♦ Corporeal property. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 corpóreo (bodiced, bodily, corporal, fleshly, physical), material (brutish, data, gear, incarnate, material, materialistic, metals, physical, stuff, worldly). (various references) 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) материальный (hylic, material, tangible). (various references) corporra. (various references) telesni (bodily, carnal, corporal, hylic, personal, physical), opipljiv (material, palpable, tangible, touchable), materijalni. (various references) corpóreo (corporal), tangible (tangible). (various references) kroppslig (bodily, body, body-, corporal, fleshly, of the body, personal, physical). (various references) 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) фізичний (bodily, carnal, natural, physic, physical), тілесний (bodily, carnal, fleshly, physical, somatic), матеріальний (earthen, economical, fleshly, material, physical, tangible). (various references) cụ thể (concrete, concretely, material), vật chất (materially). (various references) corfforol (bodily, corporal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | corporalis, corporeus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | astvaiñti. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| 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) |
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. | |
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| 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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