Meaning & use
corpus
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A large collection of written or spoken texts, especially one used for linguistic or scholarly analysis.
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Researchers analyzed a corpus of newspaper articles to track changes in language use.
The professor compiled a corpus of medieval poetry for her dissertation.
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Corpus is often used specifically in linguistics for a structured set of texts studied for language patterns; its plural is 'corpora.'
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