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BODY DEFINITIONS - 19 definitions found


Websters 1828 Dictionary

Body BOD'Y, n.
1. The frame of an animal; the material substance of an animal, in distinction from the living principle of beasts, and the soul of man.
Be not anxious for your body.
2. Matter, as opposed to spirit.
3. A person; a human being; sometimes alone; more generally, with some or no; as, somebody; nobody.
4. Reality, as opposed to representation.
A shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ. Col 2
5. A collective mass; a number of individuals or particulars united; as the body of mankind. Christians united or the Church is called the body, of which each Christian is a member, and Christ the head. 1 Cor 12:12.27.
6. The main army, in distinction from the wings, van or rear. Also, any number of forces under one commander.
7. A corporation; a number of men, united by a common tie, by one form of government, or by occupation; as the legislative body; the body of the clergy; body corporate; body politic.
8. The main part; the bulk; as the body of a tree; the body of a coach, of a ship, etc.
9. Any extended solid substance; matter; any substance or mass distinct from others; as a metaline body; a floating body; a moving body; a light body; a heavy body.
10. A pandect; a general collection; a code; a system; as a body of laws; a body of divinity.
11. Strength; as wine of a good body.
12. Among painters, colors bear a body,when they are capable of being ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color.
13. The unrenewed part of man, or sensual affections.
But I keep under by body. 1 Cor 9.
14. The extent; the limits.
Cause to come here on such a day, twelve free and lawful men--from the body of your county.
BOD'Y, v.t. To produce in some form.
Imagination bodies forth the forms of things.


WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005)

body n 1: the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" [syn: body, organic structure, physical structure] 2: a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body" 3: a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the lake" [syn: body, dead body] 4: an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body" 5: the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: torso, trunk, body] 6: a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents" 7: the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: consistency, consistence, eubstance, body] 8: the central message of a communication; "the body of the message was short" 9: the main mass of a thing 10: a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) [syn: soundbox, body] 11: the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted" v 1: invest with or as with a body; give body to [syn: body, personify]




Dictionary of Ro

body - dedab

Dictionary of Ro

body - mebac

Anagrams

body boyd

English Etymology Dictionary

body O.E. bodig "trunk, chest" (of a man or animal), originally "cask;" related to O.H.G. botah, of unknown origin. Not elsewhere in Gmc., and the word has died out in Ger., replaced by leib, originally "life," and k?rper, from L. In Eng., extension to "person" is from 1297. Contrasted with soul since at least 1240. Meaning "corpse" (short for dead body) is from c.1280. Transferred to matter generally in M.E. (e.g. heavenly body, c.1380). Bodyguard is from 1735. Body politic "the nation, the state" first recorded 1532.

English Language Idioms

body ˈbɔdɪ See: KEEP BODY AND SOUL TOGETHER.

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003)

body I. noun (plural bodies) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English bodig; akin to Old High German boteh corpse Date: before 12th century 1. a. the main part of a plant or animal body especially as distinguished from limbs and head ; trunk b. the main, central, or principal part: as (1) the nave of a church (2) the bed or box of a vehicle on or in which the load is placed (3) the enclosed or partly enclosed part of an automobile 2. a. the organized physical substance of an animal or plant either living or dead: as (1) the material part or nature of a human being (2) a dead organism ; corpse b. a human being ; person 3. a. a mass of matter distinct from other masses <a body of water> <a celestial body> b. something that embodies or gives concrete reality to a thing; also a sensible object in physical space c. aggregate, quantity <a body of evidence> 4. a. the part of a garment covering the body or trunk b. the main part of a literary or journalistic work ; text 2b c. the sound box or pipe of a musical instrument 5. a group of persons or things: as a. a fighting unit ; force b. a group of individuals organized for some purpose <a legislative body> 6. a. fullness and richness of flavor (as of wine) b. viscosity, consistency — used especially of oils and grease c. denseness, fullness, or firmness of texture <hair that lacks body and shine> d. fullness or resonance of a musical tone II. transitive verb (bodied; bodying) Date: 15th century 1. to give form or shape to ; embody 2. represent, symbolize — usually used with forth

Oxford English Reference Dictionary

body
n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 the physical structure, including the bones, flesh, and organs, of a person or an animal, whether dead or alive.
2 the trunk apart from the head and the limbs.
3 a the main or central part of a thing (body of the car; body of the attack). b the bulk or majority; the aggregate (body of opinion).
4 a a group of persons regarded collectively, esp. as having a corporate function (governing body). b (usu. foll. by of) a collection (body of facts).
5 a quantity (body of water).
6 a piece of matter (heavenly body).
7 colloq. a person.
8 a full or substantial quality of flavour, tone, etc., e.g. in wine, musical sounds, etc.
--v.tr. (-ies, -ied) (usu. foll. by forth) give body or substance to.
Phrases and idioms:
body-blow a severe setback. body-building the practice of strengthening the body, esp. shaping and enlarging the muscles, by exercise. body-colour an opaque pigment. body language the process of communicating through conscious or unconscious gestures and poses. body-line bowling Cricket persistent fast bowling on the leg side threatening the batsman's body. body odour the smell of the human body, esp. when unpleasant. body politic the nation or State as a corporate body. body scanner a scanning X-ray machine for taking tomograms of the whole body. body shop a workshop where repairs to the bodywork of vehicles are carried out. body stocking a woman's undergarment, usually made of knitted nylon, which covers the torso. body warmer a sleeveless quilted or padded jacket worn as an outdoor garment. in a body all together. keep body and soul together keep alive, esp. barely. over my dead body colloq. entirely without my assent.
Derivatives:
-bodied adj. (in comb.) (able-bodied).
Etymology: OE bodig, of unkn. orig.


Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary

body (bodies) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. Your body is all your physical parts, including your head, arms, and legs. The largest organ in the body is the liver. N-COUNT 2. You can also refer to the main part of your body, except for your arms, head, and legs, as your body. Lying flat on the floor, twist your body on to one hip and cross your upper leg over your body. = torso, trunk N-COUNT 3. You can refer to a person's dead body as a body. Officials said they had found no traces of violence on the body of the politician. = corpse N-COUNT 4. A body is an organized group of people who deal with something officially. ...the Chairman of the policemen's representative body, the Police Federation. ...the main trade union body, COSATU, Congress of South African Trade Unions. = organization N-COUNT: usu with supp 5. A body of people is a group of people who are together or who are connected in some way. ...that large body of people which teaches other people how to teach. = group N-COUNT: N of n 6. The body of something such as a building or a document is the main part of it or the largest part of it. The main body of the church had been turned into a massive television studio... = bulk N-SING: the N of n 7. The body of a car or aeroplane is the main part of it, not including its engine, wheels, or wings. The only shade was under the body of the plane. = shell N-COUNT: usu with supp 8. A body of water is a large area of water, such as a lake or a sea. It is probably the most polluted body of water in the world. N-COUNT: N of n 9. A body of information is a large amount of it. An increasing body of evidence suggests that all of us have cancer cells in our bodies at times during our lives. = quantity N-COUNT: N of n 10. If you say that an alcoholic drink has body, you mean that it has a full and strong flavour. ...a dry wine with good body. N-UNCOUNT 11. see also foreign body, heavenly body

English Explanatory Dictionary

body ˈbɔdɪ n. & v. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 the physical structure, including the bones, flesh, and organs, of a person or an animal, whether dead or alive. 2 the trunk apart from the head and the limbs. 3 a the main or central part of a thing (body of the car; body of the attack). b the bulk or majority; the aggregate (body of opinion). 4 a a group of persons regarded collectively, esp. as having a corporate function (governing body). b (usu. foll. by of) a collection (body of facts). 5 a quantity (body of water). 6 a piece of matter (heavenly body). 7 colloq. a person. 8 a full or substantial quality of flavour, tone, etc., e.g. in wine, musical sounds, etc. --v.tr. (-ies, -ied) (usu. foll. by forth) give body or substance to. øbody-blow a severe setback. body-building the practice of strengthening the body, esp. shaping and enlarging the muscles, by exercise. body-colour an opaque pigment. body language the process of communicating through conscious or unconscious gestures and poses. body-line bowling Cricket persistent fast bowling on the leg side threatening the batsman's body. body odour the smell of the human body, esp. when unpleasant. body politic the nation or State as a corporate body. body scanner a scanning X-ray machine for taking tomograms of the whole body. body shop a workshop where repairs to the bodywork of vehicles are carried out. body stocking a woman's undergarment, usually made of knitted nylon, which covers the torso. body warmer a sleeveless quilted or padded jacket worn as an outdoor garment. in a body all together. keep body and soul together keep alive, esp. barely. over my dead body colloq. entirely without my assent. øø-bodied adj. (in comb.) (able-bodied). [OE bodig, of unkn. orig.]

English-Old English dictionary

body
bancofa, banfatu, lic, lichama, banhus, bodig

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Body \Bod"y\, n. (A["e]ronautics) The central, longitudinal framework of a flying machine, to which are attached the planes or a["e]rocurves, passenger accommodations, controlling and propelling apparatus, fuel tanks, etc.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Body \Bod"y\, n.; pl. Bodies. [OE. bodi, AS. bodig; akin to OHG. botah. [root]257. Cf. Bodice.] 1. The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person. Absent in body, but present in spirit. --1 Cor. v. 3 For of the soul the body form doth take. For soul is form, and doth the body make. --Spenser. 2. The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc. Who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport together? --Shak. The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince. --Clarendon. Rivers that run up into the body of Italy. --Addison. 3. The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. --Col. ii. 17. 4. A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody. A dry, shrewd kind of a body. --W. Irving. 5. A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body. A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter. --Prescott. 6. A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity. 7. Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an a["e]riform body. ``A body of cold air.'' --Huxley. By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire. --Milton. 8. Amount; quantity; extent. 9. That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs. 10. The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body. 11. (Print.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body. 12. (Geom.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure. 13. Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body. Note: Colors bear a body when they are capable of being ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color. After body (Naut.), the part of a ship abaft the dead flat. Body cavity (Anat.), the space between the walls of the body and the inclosed viscera; the c[ae]lum; -- in mammals, divided by the diaphragm into thoracic and abdominal cavities. Body of a church, the nave. Body cloth; pl. Body cloths, a cloth or blanket for covering horses. Body clothes. (pl.) 1. Clothing for the body; esp. underclothing. 2. Body cloths for horses. [Obs.] --Addison. Body coat, a gentleman's dress coat. Body color (Paint.), a pigment that has consistency, thickness, or body, in distinction from a tint or wash. Body of a law (Law), the main and operative part. Body louse (Zo["o]l.), a species of louse ({Pediculus vestimenti}), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See Grayback. Body plan (Shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length. Body politic, the collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exercising political functions; also, a corporation. --Wharton. As to the persons who compose the body politic or associate themselves, they take collectively the name of ``people'', or ``nation''. --Bouvier. Body servant, a valet. The bodies seven (Alchemy), the metals corresponding to the planets. [Obs.] Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper. --Chaucer. Body snatcher, one who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrectionist. Body snatching (Law), the unauthorized removal of a dead body from the grave; usually for the purpose of dissection.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Body \Bod"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bodied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bodying.] To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody. To body forth, to give from or shape to mentally. Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown. --Shak.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

BODY bod'-i: I. PHILOLOGICAL: Generally speaking, the Old Testament language employs no fixed term for the human body as an entire organism in exact opposition to "soul" or "spirit." Various terms were employed, each of which denotes only one part or element of the physical nature, such as "trunk," "bones," "belly," "bowels," "reins," "flesh," these parts being used, by synecdoche, for the whole: etsem = "bone," or "skeleton," hence, "body," is found in Ex 24:10 the King James Version; La 4:7; nephesh = "living organism" ( Le 21:11; Nu 6:6,7,11; 19:11,13,16; Hag 2:13); nebhelah = "a flabby thing," "carcass" (De 21:23; Isa 26:19; Jer 26:23; 36:30); beTen = "womb" (De 28:4,11,18,53; 30:9; Job 19:17 the King James Version; Ps 132:11; Mic 6:7); yarekh = "thigh," "generative parts," "body" (Jud 8:30); gewiyah = "a body, whether alive or dead" (1Sa 31:10,12; 2Ki 8:5 the King James Version; Da 10:6); me`im, "body" (So 5:14); guphah = "corpse" (1Ch 10:12); gewah = "the back," i.e. (by extension) "person" (Job 20:25); she'er = "flesh, as living or for food," "body" (Eze 10:12); geshem = "a hard shower of rain" hence, "a body" (Da 4:33; 5:21; 7:11); nidhneh = "a sheath," hence, the receptacle of the soul, "body" (Da 7:15). The Greek word which is used almost exclusively for "body" in the New Testament is soma, Latin corpus (Mt 5:29,30; 6:22,23,25; 26:26; Joh 2:21; Ac 9:40; 1Co 15:35,37,38,44; Eph 1:23; 2:16; 4:4,12,16; 5:23,30). chros, signifying primarily the "surface" or "skin," occurs in Ac 19:12. A compound word with soma, as its base, sussomos = "a member of the same body," occurs in Eph 3:6. From the above, it appears that the New Testament places the body as a whole into opposition to the spirit or the invisible nature. Paul, of course, employs the term also to designate the sublimated substance with which we are to be clothed after the resurrection when he speaks of the "spiritual body" (1Co 15:44). Frank E. Hirsch II. GENERAL: 1. In the Old Testament: soma, Latin corpus: The term "body" is not found in the Hebrew of the Old Testament in the sense in which it occurs in the Greek "The Hebrew word for `body' is gewiyah, which is sometimes used for the `living' body (Eze 1:11), `bodies of the cherubim' (Ge 47:18; Ne 9:37), but usually for the dead body or carcass. Properly speaking the Hebrew has no term for `body.' The Hebrew term around which questions relating to the body must gather is flesh" (Davidson, Old Testament Theology, 188). Various terms are used in the Old Testament to indicate certain elements or component parts of the body, such as "flesh," "bones," "bowels," "belly," etc., some of which have received a new meaning in the New Testament. Thus the Old Testament "belly" (Hebrew beTen, Greek koilia), "Our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth" (Ps 44:25 the King James Version)--as the seat of carnal appetite--has its counterpart in the New Testament: "They serve .... their own belly" (Ro 16:18). So also the word translated "bowels" (meim, rachamim) in the sense of compassion, as in Jer 31:20, King James Version: "Therefore my bowels are troubled for him," is found in more than one place in the New Testament. Thus in Php 1:8 the King James Version, "I long after you all in the bowels (splagchna) of Christ," and again, "if there be any bowels (splagchna) and mercies" (Php 2:1 the King James Version). 2. In the New Testament: "Body" in the New Testament is largely used in a figurative sense, either as indicating the "whole man" (Ro 6:12; Heb 10:5), or as that which is morally corrupt--"the body of this death" (Ro 6:6; 7:24). Hence, the expression, "buffet my body" (1Co 9:27, hupopiazo, a word adopted from the prize-ring, palaestra), the body being considered as the lurking-place and instrument of evil. (Compare Ro 8:13 the King James Version "Mortify the deeds of the body.") 3. Other Meanings: Between these two the various other meanings seem to range. On the one hand we find the church called "the body of Christ" (Eph 4:16; 1Co 12:13), with diversity of gifts, enjoying the "unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." On the other we read of a spiritual, incorruptible body, a resurrection-body as opposed to the natural body, which is doomed to corruption in death (1Co 15:44). Not only do we find these meanings in the word itself, but also in some of its combinations. On the one hand we read in Eph 3:6 of the Gentiles as "partakers of the promise in Christ" as "fellow- heirs," and "of the same body" (sussoma) in corporate union with all who put their trust in the Redeemer of mankind; on the other, we read of mere "bodily (somatic) exercises," which are not profitable. (1Ti 4:8)--where "body" evidently is contrasted with "spirit." And again, we read of the Holy Ghost descending in "bodily" (somatic) shape upon the "Son of God" (Lu 3:22), in whom dwelt the "fullness of the Godhead bodily" (somatically) (Col 2:9). So, too, the "body" is called a temple of the Holy Ghost: "Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit?" (1Co 6:19). 4. The Body and Sin: From all this it is apparent that the body in itself is not necessarily evil, a doctrine which is taught in Greek philosophy, but nowhere in the Old Testament and New Testament. The rigid and harsh dualism met with in Plato is absent from Paul's writings, and is utterly foreign to the whole of Scripture. Here we are distinctly taught, on the one hand, that the body is subordinated to the soul, but on the other, with equal clearness, that the human body has a dignity, originally conferred upon it by the Creator, who shaped it out of earth, and glorified it by the incarnation of Christ, the sinless One, though born of a woman. Julius Muller has well said: "Paul denies the presence of evil in Christ, who was partaker of our fleshly nature (Ga 4:4), and he recognizes it in spirits who are not partakers thereof (Eph 6:12 the King James Version, `spiritual wickedness in high places'). Is it not therefore in the highest degree probable that according to him evil does not necessarily pertain to man's sensuous nature, and that sarx (say body) denotes something different from this?" (The Christian Doctrine of Sin, I, 321, English edition). He further shows that the derivation of sin from sense is utterly irreconcilable with the central principle of the apostle's doctrine as to the perfect holiness of the Redeemer, and that "the doctrine of the future resurrection--even taking into account the distinction between the soma psuchikon and the soma pneumatikon (1Co 15:44)--is clearly at variance with the doctrine that sin springs from the corporal nature as its source" (318). 5. The First Sin: The very first sin was spiritual in its origin--an act of rebellion against God--the will of the creature in opposition to the will of the Creator (Ge 3). It was conceived in doubt--"Hath God said?"; it was born in desire--"The tree was good for food"; it was stimulated by a rebellious hankering after equality with God: "Ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil"; it was introduced from without, from the spiritual world, through the agency of a mysterious, supernatural being, employing "a beast of the field more subtle than any which Yahweh God had made." That the serpent in the Old Testament is not identified with Satan, and that the clearest utterance in pre-Christian times on the subject is to be found in the Book of The Wisdom of Solomon 2:24 ("by the envy of the devil death entered into the world"), may be true. That the narrative of the Fall is figurative or symbolical may also be granted. But the whole tendency of the early narrative is to connect the first human sin with a superhuman being, employing an agent known to man, and making that agent its representative in the "subtlety" of the great temptation as a prelude to the mighty fall. The New Testament is clear on this point (Joh 8:44; 16:11; 2Co 11:3; 1Ti 2:14; Heb 2:14; Re 12:9). Great historic truths are imbedded in that narrative, whatever we may think of the form which that narrative has assumed. There can be no doubt that the oldest and truest traditions of the human race are to be found there. It is not denied that sin has desecrated the temple of the liv ing God, which is the body. That body indeed has become defiled and polluted by sin. Paul recognizes "an abnormal development of the sensuous in fallen man, and regards sin as having in a special manner entrenched itself in the body, which becomes liable to death on this very account (Ro 6:23; 7:24)" (Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, I, 761). But we may safely say that theory which connects sin with the physical body, and gives it a purely sensuous origin, is alien to the whole spirit and letter of revelation. J. I. Marais III. FIGURATIVE: In the New Testament (soma, "the body" both of men and animals) the word has a rich figurative and spiritual use: (1) the temporary home of the soul (2Co 5:6); (2) "the temple of the Holy Spirit" (1Co 6:19); (3) "temple" (Joh 2:21); (4) "the old man," the flesh as the servant of sin or the sphere in which moral evil comes to outward expression (Ro 6:6; 7:7; compare Paul's use of sarx, "flesh"); (5) the "church" as Christ's body, the organism through which He manifests His life and in which H is spirit dwells (Eph 1:23; Col 1:24); (6) the spiritual "unity" of believers, one redeemed society or organism (Eph 2:16; a corpus mysticum, Eph 4:4); (7) "substance" (spiritual reality or life in Christ) versus "shadow" (Col 2:17); (8) the ascended and glorified body of Jesus (Php 3:21); (9) the resurrection or "spiritual" (v. natural) body of the redeemed in heaven (1Co 15:44); (10) the whole personality, e.g. the spiritual presence, power and sacrificial work of Christ, the mystical meaning of "the body and the blood" symbolized in the bread and cup of the sacrament (1Co 11:27). The term body is exceptionally rich in connection with the selfgiving, sacrificial, atoning work of Christ. It was the outward sphere or manifestation of His suffering. Through the physical He revealed the extent of His redeeming and sacrificial love. He "bare our sins in his body upon the tree" (1Pe 2:24), thus forever displacing all the ceaseless and costly sacrifices of the old dispensation (Heb 9:24-28). Special terms, "body of his flesh" (Col 1:22); "body of sin" (Ro 6:6); "body of this death" (Ro 7:24); "body of his glory" (Php 3:21). ptoma, used only of fallen, i.e. dead bodies (Re 11:8,9). Dwight M. Pratt

Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms

body n. 1. Material substance, material part (as distinguished from the spirit or life). 2. Carcass, corpse, dead body. 3. Visible form or frame. 4. Trunk (as distinguished from the limbs), stem, bole. 5. Bulk, main part (as distinguished from subordinate parts), greater part. 6. Person, being, individual, mortal, creature. 7. Company, band, party, coterie, society, association, corporation. 8. System, summary, general collection. 9. Consistency, thickness, substance.

English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms)

body ˈbɔdɪ n. 1 corpse, cadaver, remains, carcass, Slang stiff: A body has been dragged up from the lake. 2 trunk, torso: They found the body, but the arms, legs, and head were missing. 3 main part or portion, hull, fuselage: The body of the plane remained intact, though the wings and superstructure broke away. 4 substance, essentials, main part, essence, heart, centre, core: The body of the book is all right, but the index needs work. 5 majority, bulk, main part or portion, mass(es): Under Henry VIII the main body of the people were prosperous. 6 association, league, band, corps, confederation, fraternity, society; committee, council; group, assemblage, assembly, congress, company: It is not within the power of this body to do more than vote on the proposal. 7 richness, substance, firmness, consistency, solidity, thickness, density, fullness, viscosity, fullness: This wine has excellent body. Add a little cornflour to give the sauce more body.

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

424 Moby Thesaurus words for "body": Adamite, Bund, Festschrift, Rochdale cooperative, affiliation, age group, aggregate, alliance, amount, amplitude, an existence, ana, anatomy, anthology, aquarium, area, array, ascender, ashes, ashram, assemblage, assembly, association, axis, back, band, basis, bastard type, batch, battalion, beard, being, belly, best part, better part, bevel, bevy, bigness, black letter, bloc, block, bodily size, body-build, bones, branch, breadth, brigade, budget, build, bulk, bunch, bundle, burden, cabal, cadaver, cake, caliber, cap, capital, carcass, carrion, case, cast, caste, cat, chap, character, chrestomathy, church, clan, class, clay, clique, clod, clump, cluster, coalition, coarseness, cohort, collectanea, collection, college, colony, combination, combine, committee, common market, commonwealth, commune, communion, community, company, compilation, complement, concrete, concreteness, concretion, confederacy, confederation, conglomerate, conglomeration, congress, consistency, consumer cooperative, contingent, cooperative, cooperative society, core, corporealize, corporify, corps, corpse, corpulence, corpus, corpus delicti, coterie, council, counter, coverage, covey, creature, credit union, crew, critter, crowbait, crowd, crux, customer, customs union, data, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, denomination, density, depth, descender, detachment, detail, diameter, dimension, dimensions, distance through, division, dry bones, duck, durability, dust, earth, earthling, economic class, economic community, em, embalmed corpse, embody, en, endogamous group, entelechy, entity, essence, essentials, expanse, expansion, extended family, extension, extent, face, faction, family, fat-faced type, fatness, federation, feet, fellow, fellowship, figure, firmness, fleet, flesh, florilegium, font, food for worms, form, frame, fraternity, free trade area, fullness, fund, fundamental, fuselage, gang, gauge, generality, gens, girth, gist, gravamen, greatness, groove, groundling, group, grouping, groupment, guy, hand, head, heart, height, holdings, homo, hulk, hull, human, human being, in-group, incarnate, incorporate, individual, italic, joker, junta, kinship group, knot, largeness, late lamented, league, length, letter, library, life, ligature, living soul, logotype, lot, lower case, lump, machine, magnitude, main body, major part, majority, majuscule, man, mass, masses, material body, materiality, materialize, measure, measurement, meat, menagerie, minuscule, mob, moiety, monad, mortal, mortal remains, most, movement, mummification, mummy, museum, nick, node, nose, nuclear family, number, object, offshoot, one, order, organic remains, organism, organization, out-group, outfit, pack, palpability, parcel, partnership, party, peer group, person, persona, personage, personality, personify, persuasion, phalanx, phratria, phratry, phyle, physical body, physique, pi, pica, pith, platoon, plurality, point, political machine, ponderability, posse, print, proportion, proportions, purport, quantity, quantum, radius, range, raw data, reach, reembody, regiment, reincarnate, relics, religious order, reliquiae, remains, richness, ring, roman, salon, sans serif, scale, schism, school, scope, script, sect, sectarism, segment, sense, set, settlement, shank, shape, shoulder, single, size, skeleton, small cap, small capital, social class, society, solid, solid body, solidity, soma, somebody, someone, something, soul, soundness, spread, squad, stability, stable, stamp, staple, steadiness, stem, stiff, stock, stoutness, strength, string, sturdiness, subcaste, substance, substantiality, substantialize, substantialness, substantiate, substantify, sum, tangibility, team, tellurian, tenement of clay, terran, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, the third dimension, thickness, thing, thrust, torso, total, totem, toughness, transmigrate, treasure, tribe, troop, troupe, trunk, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, union, unit, upper case, upshot, variety, version, viscosity, volume, whole, width, wing, worldling, zoo


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