body
nounEtymology
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”)).
Definitions
Physical frame.
- I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
Main section.
- (countable) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]
Coherent group.
- I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
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Material entity.
- All bodies are held together by internal forces.
The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- a nonpareil face on an agate body
- The stemless notes could have been cast on a body as short as 4 mm but were probably cast on bodies of the standard 14 mm size for ease of composition.
A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
To give body or shape to something.
- And as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen / Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name.
To construct the bodywork of a car.
To embody.
- I don’t say, one bodies the other / One’s spiritual truth; / But I do say it’s hard to lose either, / When you have both.
To murder someone.
A surname transferred from the nickname.
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
The neighborhood
- synonymbod
- synonymbody
- synonymflesh
- synonymcarcass
- synonymlikam
- synonymquarrons
- synonymsoma
- neighborcorporal
- neighborcorporeal
- neighboranatomy
- neighborphysiology
- neighborvisceral
- neighboracetone body
- neighboradministrative body
- neighboradvisory body
- neighborafterbody
- neighborafter body
- neighboramygaloid body
- neighboranococcygeal body
Derived
able-bodyist, a healthy body is a healthy mind, anybody, big-body, bodice, bodikin, bodiless, bodily, body and soul, body armor, body armour, body art, body bag, body blow, body-blow, bodyboard, bodyboarder, body box, body broker, body brokering, body-build, body-builder, bodybuilder, body-building, bodybuilding, body butter, bodycam, body cam, body camera, bodycare, body catch, body cavity, body cavity search, body-centered, body check, body-check, body clock, body coat, bodycolor, bodycolour · +192 more
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA