a dead body, esp of a human being; cadaver
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
corpse
(kôrps),USA pronunciation n.
- a dead body, usually of a human being.
- something no longer useful or viable:rusting corpses of old cars.
- [Obs.]a human or animal body, whether alive or dead.
- 1225–75; Middle English corps; origin, originally spelling, spelled variant of cors corse but the p is now sounded
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged remains, cadaver. See body.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
'corpse' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Burton
- bier
- body
- bury
- cadaver
- cadaverous
- cere
- coffin
- cooling board
- corps
- corse
- cremains
- cremate
- cryonics
- dredge up
- dust
- exhume
- floater
- funeral
- gibbet
- grave
- horror
- lay
- lay out
- lich
- lych gate
- narwhal
- necro-
- necromancy
- necrosis
- nectar
- ptomaine
- pyre
- relic
- remain
- remains
- shroud
- skellum
- state
- stiff
- streek
- tomb
- uncoffined
- unshroud
- vampire
- viewing
- wake
- winding sheet
- zombie