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corps
[ kawr ]
noun
- Military.
- a military organization consisting of officers and enlisted personnel or of officers alone: corps of cadets.
the U.S. Marine Corps;
corps of cadets.
- Also called army corps. a military unit of ground combat forces consisting of two or more divisions and other troops.
- a group of persons associated or acting together:
the diplomatic corps;
the press corps.
- Printing. a Continental designation that, preceded by a number, indicates size of type in Didot points of 0.0148 inch (3.8 millimeters):
14 corps.
- Obsolete. corpse.
corps
/ kɔː /
noun
- a military formation that comprises two or more divisions and additional support arms
- a military body with a specific function
intelligence corps
medical corps
- a body of people associated together
the diplomatic corps
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of corps1
Example Sentences
The Navy and Marine Corps versions of the F-35 have differing configurations and rely on an external gun pod.
He then went back to his volunteer corps, which had formed when they did not yet have an ambulance.
Stone, according to Marine officials, served eight years in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.
The line of questioning is a regular ritual conducted between Sen. Dianne Feinstein and the press corps.
It was now almost impossible to speak of individual divisions in relation to these actions, but only of corps.
The box of the diplomatic corps was just opposite us, and our gay little Mrs. F. sat in it dressed in white satin.
Car lesditz Sauvages prenans en main leurs arcs & fleches, vouloient emporter le corps.
The task of deceiving the Austrians was performed to perfection by Murat with the reserve cavalry and Lannes's corps.
During the rapid advance down the Danube on Vienna, the fifth corps continued in close support of Murat's cavalry.
When the main French columns were deployed, Lannes, with the remnant of his indomitable corps, had a brief period of rest.
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