body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒd.i/
ipa: /ˈbɑ.di/
ipa: [ˈbɑ.ɾi]
homophone: bawdy (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒdi
Forms: form: bodies
form: bodie
Etymology: 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”)).
Senses: examples: text: I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
text: If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body?
And if the eare shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body?
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
But now hath God set the members, euery one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
And if they were all one member, where were the body?
But now are they many members, yet but one body.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 12:15–20:
text: Lizzo, who is known for messages of self-love and wider acceptance, has recently said as much as she shared that she is encouraging a stance of body neutrality for herself and others. […] “Everyone’s bodies change,” she said. “That’s life, that’s what the human existence is.”
ref: 2023 May 29, Madeline Holcombe, “Lizzo is teaching us about body neutrality. Here is what it means and how to get there”, in CNN:
glosses: Physical frame.
The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
examples: text: The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
glosses: Physical frame.
The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
examples: text: Her body was found at four o’clock, just two hours after the murder.
text: The bodies of 19-year-old best friends Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones were returned to Australia on Tuesday night.
ref: 2024 November 27, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, “Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers”, in CNN:
glosses: Physical frame.
A corpse.
examples: text: Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it […]
text: Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 28, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:
text: “Well,” I says, “I cal’late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Cobb Belcher's downstairs. He wants to buy you a beer. Says a body who can whip his brother Dell must be a body worth knowing.
ref: 1995 June 30, Cyberflix, Dust: A Tale of the Wired West, GTE Entertainment, 16-bit Windows, level/area: Hard Drive:
text: What’s a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
glosses: Physical frame.
A person.
qualifier: archaic or informal except in compounds
examples: text: the early modern English husband not only took control over his wife's property upon marriage, he also acquired property in her body.
ref: 1994, M. Lindsey Kaplan, Katherine Eggert, ““Good queen, my lord, good queen” - Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in “The Winter's Tale””, in Renaissance Drama, volume 25, →DOI, page 93 of 89–118:
text: This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: black bodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture. The Garvey movement presents an example of black bodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries.
ref: 1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader, page 87:
text: In doing so, Haritaworn also rethinks the marginality of transgender bodies and practices in queer movements and spaces.
ref: 2012, Trystan T. Cotten, Transgender Migrations, page 3:
text: As the title suggests, this project is particularly interested in how race intersects with reproductive technologies—how brown bodies are deployed in the creation of white babies.
ref: 2016, Laura Harrison, Brown Bodies, White Babies, page 5:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Physical frame.
A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
examples: (countable) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]
glosses: Main section.
examples: text: The boxer took a blow to the body.
glosses: Main section.
The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
examples: text: The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
text: The railless vehicles have been supplied by the Railless Electric Traction Company, of London, as contractors, to the joint specification of the general managers of the Leeds and Bradford Tramways. The bodies have all been constructed by Messrs. Hurst, Nelson and Company, of Motherwell.
ref: 1911 July 6, “Railless traction at Leeds and Bradford”, in The Tramway and Railway World: A Review of Current Progress in Electric and Other Traction, volume 30, number July 6, London, England, page 11:
text: The executives of the Motor Truck Body Company are practical men, who have had large experience, and have, from their careful study of the conditions and the needs for vehicle bodies, qualifications that insure to their patrons the best that sound engineering, skilled workmansbip and high class material can produce. The president of the concern, Frederick Proctor, is the engineer and designer, and he was for a considerable length of time in charge of the designing of truck bodies for the Packard Motor Car Company. Elmer T. Hangstefer, secretary, treasurer and general manager, had charge of the truck body accounting department of the Packard plant, and the factory and production manager, Harry Carrier, for several years built the Packard truck bodies. In designing bodies Mr. Proctor has originality and as his experience has been with the wagon and carriage trade as well, he has produced types that are practical and sightly and are especially adapted for the service required. Mr Hangstefer has established a cost system that insures to the purchaser the exact value for the job—not an approximation or an average. He had charge of cost estimating at the Packard factory and figures to exactness. The employees have all had training in power wagon factories and are regarded as expert workmen.
ref: 1912 July 23, “Building special motor truck bodies”, in The Motor Truck: Devoted to Motor Driven Business Vehicles of All Classes, volume 3, number 7, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, page 445:
glosses: Main section.
The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories; (of vehicles, sometimes) the outer shell (as contrasted with the frame and powertrain).
examples: text: Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
glosses: Main section.
The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
glosses: Main section.
The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
examples: text: In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Main section.
The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
topics: architecture
glosses: Main section.
nave.
raw_tags: of a church
examples: text: I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
glosses: Coherent group.
A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
examples: text: The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
glosses: Coherent group.
An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
examples: text: We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
glosses: Coherent group.
A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
examples: text: All bodies are held together by internal forces.
glosses: Material entity.
Any physical object or material thing.
examples: text: The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
text: We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
glosses: Material entity.
Substance; physical presence.
examples: text: The red wine, sadly, lacked body.
text: "I’d Be Lost Without You" seems somewhat out of place from a vocal viewpoint — Lewis’s slightly reedy middle soprano is very expressive and absolutely true, but doesn’t have enough dark body to fully deal with the torchy melody.
ref: 1989 August 12, Caroline Foty, “Hindsights”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 5, page 7:
glosses: Material entity.
Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
examples: text: The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
text: In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour […]
ref: 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, “The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America”, in The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page 179:
text: Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km³) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.
ref: 2012 March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues, Peter R. Cobbold, “World's largest extrusive body of sand?”, in Geology, volume 40, number 5:
text: The huge body of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third Pole.
ref: 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns:
glosses: Material entity.
An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
examples: text: a nonpareil face on an agate body
text: 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.
ref: 1992, Mary Kay Duggan, Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type, page 99:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
Synonyms: word: bod
word: body
word: flesh
word: likam
word: quarrons
word: soma
Hyponyms: word: acetone body
word: administrative body
word: advisory body
word: afterbody
word: after body
word: amygaloid body
word: anococcygeal body
word: antibody
word: anti-shock body
word: appendant body
word: Aschoff body
word: asteroid body
word: astral body
word: auto body
word: Barr body
word: basal body
word: beach body
word: Beccarian body
word: Beltian body
word: bikini body
word: black body
word: body pack
word: bog body
word: busy body
word: busybody
word: Cajal body
word: car body
word: car-body van
word: celestial body
word: cell body
word: ciliary body
word: Cowdry body
word: crossbody
word: dead body
word: deliberative body
word: dogsbody
word: Döhle body
word: Donovan body
word: Dorito body
word: Dutcher body
word: everybody
word: fat body
word: fluorobody
word: forebody
word: foreign body
word: free body
word: fruitbody
word: fruit body
word: fruiting body
word: Golgi body
word: Goodbody
word: government body
word: graybody
word: green body
word: greybody
word: handlebody
word: hardbody
word: heavenly body
word: Heinz body
word: hemibody
word: Herring body
word: hollow body
word: homebody
word: housebody
word: interbody
word: intrabody
word: ketone body
word: legislative body
word: Lewy body
word: lower body
word: Malpighian body
word: mamillary body
word: mammillary body
word: microbody
word: midbody
word: middle body
word: minibody
word: monobody
word: multibody
word: mushroom body
word: narrowbody
word: Nissl body
word: nonbody
word: nosybody
word: nu body
word: nuclear body
word: occlusion body
word: Odland body
word: oligobody
word: olivary body
word: orebody
word: ore body
word: overbody
word: Pappenheimer body
word: parasporal body
word: Peabody
word: peak body
word: pearl body
word: pentabody
word: Pick body
word: pineal body
word: pituitary body
word: planetary body
word: polar body
word: public body
word: rainbow body
word: real body
word: rebody
word: rigid body
word: Russell body
word: Sears-Haack body
word: sense body
word: small Solar System body
word: solidbody
word: stakebody
word: student body
word: subtile body
word: subtle body
word: swap body
word: swapbody
word: the other body
word: throttle body
word: traybody
word: unbody
word: underbody
word: upper body
word: vitreous body
word: warm body
word: water body
word: waterbody
word: Wolffian body
word: Woronin body
word: zebra body
word: corpse
Coordinate terms: word: soul
Meronyms: word: body part
word: head
word: trunk
word: limb
word: leg
word: arm
word: hand
word: organ
word: organ system
word: skeleton
Derived terms: word: able-bodyist
word: a healthy body is a healthy mind
word: anybody
word: bodice
word: bodikin
word: bodiless
word: bodily
word: body and soul
word: body armor
word: body armour
word: body art
word: body bag
word: body blow
word: body-blow
word: bodyboard
word: bodyboarder
word: body broker
word: body brokering
word: body-build
word: body-builder
word: bodybuilder
word: body-building
word: bodybuilding
word: body butter
word: bodycam
word: body cam
word: body camera
word: bodycare
word: body catch
word: body cavity
word: body cavity search
word: body-centered
word: body check
word: body-check
word: body clock
word: body coat
word: bodycolor
word: bodycolour
word: body con
word: body-con
word: body conscious
word: body contact
word: body control module
word: body cord
word: body corporate
word: body count
word: body double
word: body dysmorphic disorder
word: body English
word: body farm
word: body fascism
word: body fat
word: bodyfat
word: body fluid
word: body-focused repetitive behavior disorder
word: body forth
word: body fossil
word: bodyful
word: bodyfur
word: bodygasm
word: body gear
word: bodyguard
word: bodyhacker
word: bodyhacking
word: body hair
word: body heat
word: bodyhood
word: body horror
word: body-hugging
word: body image
word: body in black
word: body integrity identity disorder
word: body in white
word: bodyism
word: bodyjack
word: body jacket
word: body jar
word: body kit
word: body language
word: body leasing
word: bodylike
word: body line
word: body linen
word: body lotion
taxonomic: Pediculus humanus
word: body louse
word: body man
word: body mass
word: body mass index
word: bodymaster
word: body matter
word: body mechanics
word: body mic
word: bodymind
word: body-mind
word: body modification
word: Bodymore
word: bodynet
word: body odor
word: body odour
word: body-ody-ody
word: body of Christ
word: body of me
word: body of water
word: body of work
word: bodypack
word: body-paint
word: body paint
word: bodypaint
word: body painting
word: body part
word: body-part
word: body piercing
word: body pillow
word: body plan
word: bodyplate
word: body politic
word: body politique
word: body-positive
word: body positivity
word: body press
word: body pump
word: body scan
word: bodyscape
word: body servant
word: body-shame
word: body-shamer
word: body shaming
word: body-shaming
word: body shape
word: body shaper
word: bodyshell
word: bodyship
word: body shop
word: body shopping
word: body shot
word: bodyside
word: bodyslam
word: body-slam
word: body slam
word: body snatcher
word: body-snatcher
word: bodysnatching
word: body soap
word: body spray
word: body stocking
word: bodystocking
word: bodystyle
word: bodysuit
word: bodysurf
word: body-surf
word: body surf
word: bodysurfer
word: bodyswap
word: body swerve
word: body tea
word: body temperature
word: body text
word: body throw
word: body-to-body massage
word: bodywarmer
word: body wash
word: body wave
word: bodywear
word: body weight
word: bodyweight
word: bodywide
word: body wire
word: bodywork
word: bodyworker
word: body-worn
word: bodyworn
word: body-worn camera
word: body-worn video
word: body wrap
word: bone in one's body
word: catch a body
word: cavernous body
word: dog's body
word: dorsal body hormone
word: electronic body music
word: epithelial body
word: every body
word: free-body diagram
word: free body diagram
word: full-body
word: full-body day
word: full body scanner
word: full-body scanner
word: habit of body
word: hollow body position
word: human body
word: in a body
word: keep body and soul together
word: keep soul and body together
word: know where the bodies are buried
word: lower body day
word: many-body problem
word: mind-body
word: move one's body
word: my body is ready
word: n-body problem
word: nemaline body
word: nobody
word: no body, no crime
word: out-of-body
word: out-of-body experience
word: out-of-the-body
word: out-of-the-body experience
word: over my dead body
word: rigid body dynamics
word: sell one's body
word: some body
word: some-body
word: somebody
word: spongious body
word: spongy body
word: three body problem
word: total body day
word: touch the body
word: two-body problem
word: unibody
word: upper body day
word: wide-body
word: with every bone in one's body
english: body
translation: body
urls: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Category:English+lemmas&from=body#mw-pages
word: English terms starting with
Related terms: word: corporal
word: corporeal
word: anatomy
word: physiology
word: visceral