bodies

nounphysique
nouncorpse
nounhuman being
nounbulk; central portion
nouncrowd
nounmain part of written work

Synonyms for bodies

noun physique

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public

noun. people of community; people interested in something

Word Origin & History

Old English bodig "trunk, chest" (of a man or animal); related to Old High German botah, of unknown origin. Not elsewhere in Germanic, and the word has died out in German (replaced by leib, originally "life," and körper, from Latin). In English, extension to "person" is from late 13c. Meaning "main part" of anything was in late Old English, hence its use in reference to vehicles (1520s).

Contrasted with soul since at least mid-13c. Meaning "corpse" (short for dead body) is from late 13c. Transferred to matter generally in Middle English (e.g. heavenly body, late 14c.). Body politic "the nation, the state" first recorded 1520s, legalese, with French word order. Body image was coined 1935. Body language is attested from 1967, perhaps from French langage corporel (1966). Phrase over my dead body attested by 1833.

Example Sentences for bodies

So soon as they reached it, Indians separated into two bodies.

The door was piled with bodies, and the stone floor was slippery with blood.

Girls and women are employed in examining the bodies of the moths with microscopes.

His body was laid away in the grave, where our bodies shall decay.

So that their bodies might rear up, and no man resist their attack.

She had all the ethereal beauty of the saints relieved from their bodies.

Nine bodies of the enemy were left on the ground, and a standard was captured.

The sweat glistened on their bodies, but their eyes gleamed fanatically.

This left room for our bodies to pass out, without any difficulty.

In vain do you pretend to have learned the nature of bodies from your past experience.

bodies

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More words related to bodies

people

peoples

public