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English

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Etymology

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    Proto-Indo-European*bʰewdʰ-
    Proto-West Germanic*bodag
    Old Englishbodiġ
    Middle Englishbodi
    Englishbody

    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”)).

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    body (countable anduncountable,pluralbodies)

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    body
    body

    1=head2=face3=neck4=shoulder5=chest6=navel,belly button7=abdomen8=groin9=penis10–14=leg10=thigh11=knee12=shin13=ankle14=foot15–19=arm15=upper arm16=elbow17=forearm18=wrist19=hand

    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.
        • 2023 May 29, Madeline Holcombe, “Lizzo is teaching us about body neutrality. Here is what it means and how to get there”, inCNN‎[1]:
          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 ofbody neutrality for herself and others.[…] “Everyone’sbodies change,” she said. “That’s life, that’s what the human existence is.”
      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.
        • 2024 November 27, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, “Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers”, inCNN‎[2]:
          Thebodies of 19-year-old best friends Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones were returned to Australia on Tuesday night.
      8. (archaic or informal 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.
        • 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””, inRenaissance Drama‎[3], volume25,→DOI, page 93 of 89–118:
          the early modern English husband not only took control over his wife's property upon marriage, he also acquired property in herbody.
        • 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;(of vehicles, sometimes) the outer shell (as contrasted with the frame and powertrain).[from 11th c.]
        The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but thebody of the car was in remarkable shape.
        • 1911 July 6, “Railless traction at Leeds and Bradford”, inThe Tramway and Railway World: A Review of Current Progress in Electric and Other Traction‎[4], volume30, number July 6, London, England, page11:
          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. Thebodies have all been constructed by Messrs. Hurst, Nelson and Company, of Motherwell.
        • 1912 July, “Building special motor truckbodies”, inThe Motor Truck: Devoted to Motor Driven Business Vehicles of All Classes‎[5], volume 3, number 7, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, page445:
          The executives of the Motor TruckBody Company are practical men, who have had large experience, and have, from their careful study of the conditions and the needs for vehiclebodies, 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 truckbodies for the Packard Motor Car Company. Elmer T. Hangstefer, secretary, treasurer and general manager, had charge of the truckbody accounting department of the Packard plant, and the factory and production manager, Harry Carrier, for several years built the Packard truckbodies. In designingbodies 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.
      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.]
      (The addition ofquotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
    3. (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.
    5. 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.
    6. 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[6]:
          The hugebody of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third Pole.
    7. (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.
    8. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.

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    Translations

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    physical structure of a human or animal
    fleshly or corporeal nature of a human
    corpse—seecorpse
    torso—seetorso
    largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork)—see alsobodywork,‎fuselage,‎hull
    section of a dress
    main content of a text
    bodysuit
    programming: code of a subroutine
    group having a common purpose or opinion
    organisation, company or other authoritative group
    collection of knowledge
    any physical object or material thing
    substance, material presence
    comparative viscosity, solidity or substance
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    Verb

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    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[7] (comic):
          I keep gettingbodied by kids half my age.

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    Etymology 1

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    Pseudo-anglicism, derived frombodysuit.

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    body n (indeclinable)

    1. bodysuit,leotard

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    See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

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    body

    1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumentalplural ofbod

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    Dutch

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    Pseudo-anglicism, derived frombodysuit.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.di/
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    • Hyphenation:bo‧dy

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    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

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    Pseudo-anglicism, derived frombodysuit.

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    body

    1. snapsuit,onesies(infant bodysuit)
      Synonym:potkupuku
    2. bodystocking(one-piece article of lingerie)
      Synonyms:bodi,body stocking

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    Inflection ofbody (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
    nominativebodybodyt
    genitivebodynbodyjen
    partitivebodyabodyja
    illativebodyynbodyihin
    singularplural
    nominativebodybodyt
    accusativenom.bodybodyt
    gen.bodyn
    genitivebodynbodyjen
    partitivebodyabodyja
    inessivebodyssabodyissa
    elativebodystabodyista
    illativebodyynbodyihin
    adessivebodyllabodyilla
    ablativebodyltabodyilta
    allativebodyllebodyille
    essivebodynabodyina
    translativebodyksibodyiksi
    abessivebodyttabodyitta
    instructive—bodyin
    comitativeSee the possessive forms below.
    Possessive forms ofbody(Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
    first-person singular possessor
    singularplural
    nominativebodynibodyni
    accusativenom.bodynibodyni
    gen.bodyni
    genitivebodynibodyjeni
    partitivebodyanibodyjani
    inessivebodyssanibodyissani
    elativebodystanibodyistani
    illativebodyynibodyihini
    adessivebodyllanibodyillani
    ablativebodyltanibodyiltani
    allativebodyllenibodyilleni
    essivebodynanibodyinani
    translativebodyksenibodyikseni
    abessivebodyttanibodyittani
    instructive——
    comitative—bodyineni
    second-person singular possessor
    singularplural
    nominativebodysibodysi
    accusativenom.bodysibodysi
    gen.bodysi
    genitivebodysibodyjesi
    partitivebodyasibodyjasi
    inessivebodyssasibodyissasi
    elativebodystasibodyistasi
    illativebodyysibodyihisi
    adessivebodyllasibodyillasi
    ablativebodyltasibodyiltasi
    allativebodyllesibodyillesi
    essivebodynasibodyinasi
    translativebodyksesibodyiksesi
    abessivebodyttasibodyittasi
    instructive——
    comitative—bodyinesi
    first-person plural possessor
    singularplural
    nominativebodymmebodymme
    accusativenom.bodymmebodymme
    gen.bodymme
    genitivebodymmebodyjemme
    partitivebodyammebodyjamme
    inessivebodyssammebodyissamme
    elativebodystammebodyistamme
    illativebodyymmebodyihimme
    adessivebodyllammebodyillamme
    ablativebodyltammebodyiltamme
    allativebodyllemmebodyillemme
    essivebodynammebodyinamme
    translativebodyksemmebodyiksemme
    abessivebodyttammebodyittamme
    instructive——
    comitative—bodyinemme
    second-person plural possessor
    singularplural
    nominativebodynnebodynne
    accusativenom.bodynnebodynne
    gen.bodynne
    genitivebodynnebodyjenne
    partitivebodyannebodyjanne
    inessivebodyssannebodyissanne
    elativebodystannebodyistanne
    illativebodyynnebodyihinne
    adessivebodyllannebodyillanne
    ablativebodyltannebodyiltanne
    allativebodyllennebodyillenne
    essivebodynannebodyinanne
    translativebodyksennebodyiksenne
    abessivebodyttannebodyittanne
    instructive——
    comitative—bodyinenne

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    Hawaiian Creole

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    Derived fromEnglishbody.

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    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[9], 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.

    Italian

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    Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping ofEnglishbodysuit.

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    body m (invariable)

    1. leotard
      Synonym:calzamaglia

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

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    PolishWikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipediapl

    Etymology

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    Pseudo-anglicism, derived frombodysuit.

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    body n (indeclinable)

    1. bodysuit,leotard

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    • body inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • body in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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    Etymology

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    Pseudo-anglicism, derived frombodysuit.

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    body m (pluralbodies)

    1. bodysuit,leotard

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    Romanian

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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishbody.

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    body n (pluralbody-uri)

    1. bodysuit

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    Declension ofbody
    singularplural
    indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
    nominative-accusativebodybody-ulbody-uribody-urile
    genitive-dativebodybody-uluibody-uribody-urilor
    vocativebody-ulebody-urilor

    Scots

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    FromMiddle Englishbody,bodiȝ, fromOld Englishbodiġ,bodeġ(“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”).

    Noun

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    body (pluralbodies)

    1. body
    2. person,human being

    Slovak

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    body n (indeclinable)

    1. bodysuit

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    • “body”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025

    Spanish

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    • IPA(key): /ˈbodi/[ˈbo.ð̞i]
    • Rhymes:-odi
    • Syllabification:bo‧dy

    Noun

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    body m (pluralbodysorbodies)

    1. alternative spelling ofbodi

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