corpus

Meaning

A large collection of linguistic data used for language analysis and research.

a collection of written texts, or the main body of something

Example Sentences

Linguists use a corpus to analyze language patterns.

The linguist analyzed a large corpus of English literature.

Synonyms

database, compilation, collection, body, anthology

Entry 1

database, compilation, collection

Entry 2

collection, body, compilation, anthology

Antonyms

fragment, selection, partial data

Collocations

text corpus, legal corpus, corpus linguistics