• bodie(obsolete)

FromMiddle Englishbodi,bodiȝ, fromOld Englishbodiġ(“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), fromProto-West Germanic*bodag(“body, trunk”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰewdʰ-(“to be awake, observe”). Cognate withOld High Germanbotah (whenceSwabianBottich(“body, torso”)).

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈbɒdi/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈbɑdi/,[ˈbɑɾi]

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• Rhymes:-ɒdi
• Hyphenation:bod‧y
• Homophone:bawdy(cot–caught merger)

body (countable anduncountable,pluralbodies)

1. Physical frame.
   2. (countable) Thephysical structure of a human or animal seen as one singleorganism.[from 9th c.]

      I saw them walking from a distance, theirbodies strangely angular in the dawn light.

      • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,1 Corinthians12:15–20:

        If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of thebody: is it therefore not of thebody?
        And if the eare shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of thebody: is it therefore not of thebody?
        If the wholebody 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 thebody, as it hath pleased him.
        And if they were all one member, where were thebody?
        But now are they many members, yet but onebody.

   4. Thefleshly orcorporeal nature of a human, as opposed to thespirit orsoul.[from 13th c.]

      Thebody is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.

   6. (countable) Acorpse.[from 13th c.]

      Herbody was found at four o’clock, just two hours after the murder.

   8. (archaic orinformal except in compounds) Aperson.[from 13th c.]
      • 1749,Henry Fielding,The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London:A[ndrew] Millar, […],→OCLC:
        Folio Society 1973, page 463:

        Indeed, if it belonged to a poorbody, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it[…]

      • 1876,Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 28, inThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company,→OCLC:

        Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. Abody's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.

      • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:

        “Well,” I says, “I cal’late abody 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.

      • 1995 June 30,Cyberflix,Dust: A Tale of the Wired West, GTE Entertainment,16-bit Windows, level/area: Hard Drive:

        Cobb Belcher's downstairs. He wants to buy you a beer. Says abody who can whip his brother Dell must be abody worth knowing.

      What’s abody gotta do to get a drink around here?

   9. (sociology) Ahuman being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
      • 1999, Devon Carbado,Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader, page87:

        This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: blackbodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture. The Garvey movement presents an example of blackbodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries.

      • 2012, Trystan T. Cotten,Transgender Migrations, page 3:

        In doing so, Haritaworn also rethinks the marginality of transgenderbodies and practices in queer movements and spaces.

      • 2016, Laura Harrison,Brown Bodies, White Babies, page 5:

        As the title suggests, this project is particularly interested in how race intersects with reproductive technologies—how brownbodies are deployed in the creation of white babies.

2. Main section.
   1. Thetorso, themain structure of a human or animal frame excluding theextremities (limbs, head, tail).[from 9th c.]

      The boxer took a blow to thebody.

   2. The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from itsappendages oraccessories.[from 11th c.]

      The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but thebody of the car was in remarkable shape.

   3. (archaic) The section of adress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.[from 16th c.]

      Penny was in the scullery, pressing thebody of her new dress.

   4. Thecontent of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.[from 17th c.]

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   (countable) Abodysuit.[from 19th c.]

   1. (programming) Thecode of asubroutine, contrasted to itssignature andparameters.[from 20th c.]

      In many programming languages, the methodbody is enclosed in braces.

   2. (architecture, of a church)nave.
4. Coherent group.
   1. A group of people having a commonpurpose oropinion; amass.[from 16th c.]

      I was escorted from the building by abody of armed security guards.

   3. Anorganisation,company or otherauthoritative group.[from 17th c.]

      The local train operating company is the managingbody for this section of track.

   4. Aunified collection ofdetails,knowledge orinformation.[from 17th c.]

      We have now amassed abody of evidence which points to one conclusion.

5. Material entity.
   2. (countable) Any physicalobject ormaterial thing.[from 14th c.]

      Allbodies are held together by internal forces.

   3. (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.[from 17th c.]
      • 1922 October 26,Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, inJacob’s Room, Richmond, London:[…]Leonard & Virginia Woolf at theHogarth Press,→OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press,1960,→OCLC:

        The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from allbody, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.

      We have givenbody to what was just a vague idea.

   4. (uncountable) Comparativeviscosity,solidity orsubstance (in wine, colours etc.).[from 17th c.]

      The red wine, sadly, lackedbody.

      • 1989 August 12, Caroline Foty, “Hindsights”, inGay Community News, volume17, number 5, page 7:

        "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 darkbody to fully deal with the torchy melody.

   5. Anagglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.

      The English Channel is abody of water lying between Great Britain and France.

      • 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”, inThe political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page179:

        In a gentle breeze, the wholebody 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[…]

      • 2012 March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues, Peter R. Cobbold, “World's largest extrusivebody of sand?”, inGeology, volume40, number 5:

        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.

      • 2018,VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns‎^[1]:

        The hugebody of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third Pole.

6. (printing) Theshank of atype, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).

   a nonpareil face on an agatebody

   • 1992, Mary Kay Duggan,Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type, page99:

     The stemless notes could have been cast on abody as short as 4 mm but were probably cast onbodies of the standard 14 mm size for ease of composition.

7. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.

• See alsoThesaurus:body
• See alsoThesaurus:corpse

• English terms starting with “body”

• corporal
• corporeal

body (third-person singular simple presentbodies,present participlebodying,simple past and past participlebodied)

1. (transitive, often withforth) To givebody orshape to something.
   • c.1595–1596 (date written),William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,(please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     And as imaginationbodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen / Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name.

   • 1851 March 22, “The Foreign Country at Home. IV. Abergavenny to Swansea.”, inLeigh Hunt, editor,Leigh Hunt’s Journal; a Miscellany for the Cultivation of the Memorable, the Progressive, and the Beautiful, volume I, number16, London:[…] Stewart & Murray, […],→OCLC,page255:

     [A]s you stand on the steps of the Castle Green in this strange place, you feel quite floaty. This you are told is the scene of the Merthyr riots; and you feel still floatier as youbody forth before your eyes a picture like the following—[…]

   • 1981,William Irwin Thompson,The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page175:

     The drama of the storehouse on earth has its counterpart in Heaven, and if we accept the insights of both Jacobsen and von Dechend, we can see that the myth isbodying forth a principle which will later be expressed in the Hermetic axiom, “As above, so below.” In fact, it is precisely this relationship between above and below that the myth explores.

2. To construct thebodywork of a car.
3. (transitive) Toembody.
   • 1955, Philip Larkin,Toads:

     I don’t say, onebodies the other / One’s spiritual truth; / But I do say it’s hard to lose either, / When you have both.

4. (transitive,slang,African-American Vernacular) Tomurder someone.
   1. (by extension) Toutterlydefeat someone.
      • 2023, “Gaming at 24”, inhyperx‎^[2] (comic):

        I keep gettingbodied by kids half my age.

• “body v.”, inGreen’s Dictionary of Slang,Jonathon Green, 2016–present

•  body on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• BYOD,Boyd,Doby,do by

• IPA^(key):[ˈbodɪ]
• Rhymes:-odɪ
• Hyphenation:bo‧dy

Pseudo-anglicism, derived frombodysuit.

body n (indeclinable)

1. bodysuit,leotard

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

body

1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumentalplural ofbod

• doby

Pseudo-anglicism, derived frombodysuit.

• IPA^(key):/ˈbɔ.di/

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• Hyphenation:bo‧dy

body m (pluralbody's,diminutivebody'tje n)

1. bodysuit,leotard,onesie
   1. (garment worn by adult)

      Synonyms:bodystocking,onesie

   2. (garment worn by infant or small child)

      Synonyms:romper,rompertje,kruippakje

2. body, substance

Pseudo-anglicism, derived frombodysuit.

• IPA^(key):/ˈbody/,[ˈbo̞dy]
• IPA^(key):/ˈbodi/,[ˈbo̞di]
• Rhymes:-ody
• Homophone:bodi
• Hyphenation^(key):bo‧dy

body

1. snapsuit,onesies(infant bodysuit)

   Synonym:potkupuku

2. bodystocking(one-piece article of lingerie)

   Synonyms:bodi,body stocking

• “body”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-02

Derived fromEnglishbody.

body

1. (countable)body(thephysical structure of a human or animal seen as one singleorganism)
   • 2000, “Matthew 6”, in Joseph Grimes, transl.,Da Jesus Book: Hawaii Pidgin New Testament‎^[4], Wycliffe Bible Translators,→ISBN,page17:

     You know, aah, da eye jalike one lamp fo inside dabody. If da eye okay, dat mean, da guy stay all light inside. He get good heart fo help peopo.

     The eye is thebody’s lamp. So if your eye is clear, then your whole body will be lit up.

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping ofEnglishbodysuit.

• IPA^(key):/ˈbɔ.di/
• Rhymes:-ɔdi
• Hyphenation:bò‧dy

body m (invariable)

1. leotard

   Synonym:calzamaglia

• body in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Pseudo-anglicism, derived frombodysuit.

• IPA^(key):/ˈbɔ.dɘ/

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• Rhymes:-ɔdɘ
• Syllabification:bo‧dy

body n (indeclinable)