corps

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
  2. A corps de ballet.
    — The performers were all creditable dancers as well as comedians […] even the largest of them cavorted about en pointe with wonderful ease, and the corps work was extremely precise in its inaccuracies.
  3. plural of corp form-of,plural
  4. Obsolete spelling of corpse. alt-of,obsolete
    — How to keep the corps ſeven dayes from corruption by anointing and waſhing, without exenteration, were an hazardable peece of art, in our choiſeſt practiſe.
  5. An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
    — diplomatic corps

词形变化

corps plural corps plural corpses plural

词汇关系

衍生词
avant-corps corper corps-a-corps corps de logis corpsman corpsperson corpswoman diplomatic corps free corps juste-au-corps marine corps press corps staff corps

词源

词源 1
From French corps d'armée (literally “army body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse and corpus. See also English riff.
词源 2
Clipping.
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