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corpus

noun

NAmE//ˈkɔrpəs//

(pl. corpora

NAmE//ˈkɔrpərə//

, (or )corpuses

NAmE//ˈkɔrpəsəz//

) (technology)

a collection of written or spoken texts a corpus of 100 million words of spoken English the whole corpus of Renaissance poetry see habeas corpus

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