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body en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • [ˈbɑdɪi̯] ~(d-flapping)[ˈbɑɾɪi̯] (General-American)
  • /ˈbɑdi/ (General-American)
  • audio SSB
  • /-dɪ/ (Scotland)
  • /ˈbɔdiɪj/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈbɔdɪi̯] (Australia)
  • /ˈbɔdi/ (Australia)
  • /ˈbɒdi/ (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈbɒdi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [ˈbɔdɪi̯] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /-di/ (Scotland)
  • [ˈbɒdɪi̯] ~(conservatively)[ˈbɒdɪ] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈbɔde/ (Scotland)
  • [ˈbɔ̟dɪi̯] ~ [ˈbɞ̠dɪi̯] (New-Zealand)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- Proto-West Germanic *bodag Old English bodiġ Middle English bodi English body From Middle English body, bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”). Cognate with Old High German botah (“body, corpse, trunk, torso”) (whence Swabian Bottich (“body, torso”), Bavarian Bottich (“body, torso, carcass; lower part of a shirt or jacket”)).

Meanings

  1. (countable) Physical frame. ▸ The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
    • I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
    • If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body? And if the eare shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body 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 the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 12:15–20:
    • 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 of body neutrality for herself and others. […] “Everyone’s bodies change,” she said. “That’s life, that’s what the human existence is.” 2023 May 29, Madeline Holcombe, “Lizzo is teaching us about body neutrality. Here is what it means and how to get there”, in CNN, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
  2. (countable, uncountable) Physical frame. ▸ The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
    • The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
  3. (countable) Physical frame. ▸ A corpse.
    • The bodies of 19-year-old best friends Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones were returned to Australia on Tuesday night. 2024 November 27, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, “Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers”, in CNN:
    • Her body was found at four o’clock, just two hours after the murder.
  4. (countable, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Physical frame. ▸ A corpse. ▸ A murder.
    • His gun had two bodies on it.
    • He caught a body and got forty years in prison.
  5. (countable, qualifier:archaic or informal except in compounds, uncountable) Physical frame. ▸ A person.
    • “Well,” I says, “I cal’late a body 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. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
    • Cobb Belcher's downstairs. He wants to buy you a beer. Says a body who can whip his brother Dell must be a body worth knowing. 1995 June 30, Cyberflix, Dust: A Tale of the Wired West, GTE Entertainment, 16-bit Windows, level/area: Hard Drive:
    • What’s a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
    • "Will ye giv a body a taste o' yer beer to thry?" sez Tom. 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 374:
    • Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing. 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 28, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:
    • Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it […]
  6. (countable, uncountable) Physical frame. ▸ A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
    • the early modern English husband not only took control over his wife's property upon marriage, he also acquired property in her body. 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””, in Renaissance Drama, volume 25, →DOI, page 93 of 89–118:
    • In doing so, Haritaworn also rethinks the marginality of transgender bodies and practices in queer movements and spaces. 2012, Trystan T. Cotten, Transgender Migrations, page 3:
    • This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: black bodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture. The Garvey movement presents an example of black bodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries. 1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader, page 87:
    • As the title suggests, this project is particularly interested in how race intersects with reproductive technologies—how brown bodies are deployed in the creation of white babies. 2016, Laura Harrison, Brown Bodies, White Babies, page 5:
  7. (countable, uncountable) Main section. ▸ The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
    • The boxer took a blow to the body.
  8. (countable, uncountable) Main section. ▸ The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories; (of vehicles, sometimes) the outer shell (as contrasted with the frame and powertrain).
    • The executives of the Motor Truck Body Company are practical men, who have had large experience, and have, from their careful study of the conditions and the needs for vehicle bodies, 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 truck bodies for the Packard Motor Car Company. Elmer T. Hangstefer, secretary, treasurer and general manager, had charge of the truck body accounting department of the Packard plant, and the factory and production manager, Harry Carrier, for several years built the Packard truck bodies. In designing bodies 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. 1912 July 14, “Building special motor truck bodies”, in The Motor Truck: Devoted to Motor Driven Business Vehicles of All Classes, volume 3, number 7, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, page 445:
    • 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. The bodies have all been constructed by Messrs. Hurst, Nelson and Company, of Motherwell. 1911 July 6, “Railless traction at Leeds and Bradford”, in The Tramway and Railway World: A Review of Current Progress in Electric and Other Traction, volume 30, number July 6, London, England, page 11:
    • The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
  9. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Main section. ▸ The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
    • Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
  10. (countable, uncountable) Main section. ▸ The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
  11. (countable) Main section. ▸ A bodysuit.
  12. (countable, uncountable) Main section. ▸ The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
    • In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
  13. (countable, of a church, uncountable) Main section. ▸ Nave.
  14. (countable, uncountable) Coherent group. ▸ A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
    • I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
  15. (countable, uncountable) Coherent group. ▸ An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
    • The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
  16. (countable, uncountable) Coherent group. ▸ A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
    • We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
  17. (countable) Material entity. ▸ Any physical object or material thing.
    • Arriving during late spring in the satellite's southern hemisphere, Voyager found the coldest body in the solar system, minus 235°C (-391°F). 1990 August, Rick Gore, “Neptune: Voyager's Last Picture Show”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 42:
    • All bodies are held together by internal forces.
  18. (uncountable) Material entity. ▸ Substance; physical presence.
    • We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
    • The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded. 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
  19. (uncountable) Material entity. ▸ Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
    • "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 dark body to fully deal with the torchy melody. 1989 August 12, Caroline Foty, “Hindsights”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 5, page 7:
    • The red wine, sadly, lacked body.
  20. (of hair, uncountable) Material entity. ▸ Volume.
    • Experimented with turning my hair up with cans. Rollers aren't large enough and leave a curl when you want body and just straightness. 1965 January 7, Lou Sullivan, Diary:
  21. (countable, uncountable) Material entity. ▸ An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
    • The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
    • 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. 2012 March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues, Peter R. Cobbold, “World's largest extrusive body of sand?”, in Geology, volume 40, number 5:
    • In a gentle breeze, the whole body 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 […] 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”, in The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page 179:
    • The huge body of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third Pole. 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns:
  22. (countable, uncountable) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
    • The stemless notes could have been cast on a body as short as 4 mm but were probably cast on bodies of the standard 14 mm size for ease of composition. 1992, Mary Kay Duggan, Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type, page 99:
    • a nonpareil face on an agate body
  23. (countable, uncountable) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bodies Number=Plur lexicographic
bodie alternative, obsolete lexicographic

Coordinates

soul

Deriveds

body-positive · body broker · body art · total body day · bodyhacker · body shaming · body triangle · bodygasm · body press · body snatcher · body-blow · body of Christ · body-centered · no body, no crime · bodysuit · body control module · body jacket · body wire · bodywise · with every bone in one's body · bodywarmer · body wall · bodysurfer · body-shaming · out-of-body experience · in a body · body-shamer · body catch · body temperature · bodily · many-body problem · spongious body · body shop · body politique · body stocking · body mass index · body cavity search · out-of-the-body · body and soul · body spray · Hirano body · big-body · bodybuilding · body scan · bodyship · body mass · free-body diagram · body corporate · body of work · lower body day · dorsal body hormone · body gear · body coat · Body of Christ · body of me · keep body and soul together · nemaline body · full-body scanner · body cord · body language · body leasing · body armor · body-worn · some body · body wash · body-worn video · upper body day · n-body problem · bodyfat · body English · sell one's body · body-focused repetitive behavior disorder · bodystocking · bodylike · bodycolour · able-bodyist · body swerve · human body · body lock · body dysmorphic disorder · know where the bodies are buried · English terms starting with · body-builder · bodymaster · body horror · bone in one's body · habit of body · body slam · bodysurf · bodyshell · touch the body · bodypaint · bodyscape · nobody · bodyboarder · body paint · body armour · body bag · bodyguard · body tea · body-surf · bodyslam · body cam · somebody · nanobody · bodypack · body packing · body heat · body forth · body jar · full-body · hollow body position · free body diagram · my body is ready · bodyworn · body shot · body box · body integrity identity disorder · body blow · body linen · two-body problem · body-building · body conscious · Müllerian body · body shell · body hygiene kit · body politic · three body problem · body butter · body negative · body wave · bodyside · body piercing · over my dead body · bodywide · body lotion · body-shame · bodyfur · body line · body image · dog's body · bodymind · a healthy body is a healthy mind · bodybeat · bodikin · anybody · body check · bodywork · bodyhacking · body odor · bodyful · every body · bodylength · bodywear · bodyweight · body clock · body servant · body-ody-ody · body-mind · body soap · out-of-the-body experience · bodycare · body matter · body double · bodyworker · body plan · body mic · bodymaking · body in black · bodyjack · bodymass · Bodymore · body-worn camera · out-of-body · body pillow · bodycolor · bodice · body brokering · body louse · body surf · body painting · unibody · body count · body-snatcher · body man · spongy body · body camera · body of water · body kit · body part · electronic body music · bodybuilder · body-build · body pump · body-check · body in white · body farm · towbody · body fluid · full body scanner · bodyswap · body con · bodyboard · body shaper · bodyhood · body-part · full-body day · aftbody · body cavity · keep soul and body together · bodycam · body shopping · body positivity · bodysnatching · body wrap · body type · bodynet · body-slam · bodymaker · body stuffing · body fat · body mechanics · body throw · some-body · bodiless · body hair · wide-body · move one's body · body modification · catch a body · body text · body-hugging · bodystyle · body-paint · mind-body · body contact · bodyism · body weight · body fascism · rigid body dynamics · cavernous body · body-to-body massage · bodyplate · body-con · body shape · body odour · body fossil · epithelial body

Descendants

bodi · bodi · บอดี · bodi · บอดี้ · bodi · bóde · bodi · bọdí · bodi · bady · bodi · bodi · badi

Hyponyms

dogsbody · advisory body · anti-shock body · pituitary body · forebody · Dutcher body · narrowbody · dead body · small Solar System body · nonbody · Heinz body · Cajal body · rebody · zebra body · nu body · Golgi body · afterbody · celestial body · warm body · waterbody · multibody · microbody · hemibody · Döhle body · sense body · middle body · auto body · throttle body · mushroom body · bikini body · pentabody · antibody · greybody · nuclear body · oligobody · legislative body · deliberative body · parasporal body · Odland body · fruitbody · bog body · midbody · administrative body · underbody · mamillary body · water body · lower body · student body · Barr body · hollow body · Dorito body · Cowdry body · amygaloid body · Herring body · ore body · pearl body · Nissl body · cell body · fat body · subtile body · government body · Pappenheimer body · Lewy body · occlusion body · car body · beach body · Goodbody · Sears-Haack body · green body · Malpighian body · olivary body · intrabody · minibody · car-body van · astral body · fluorobody · hardbody · asteroid body · graybody · Aschoff body · stakebody · polar body · anococcygeal body · free body · Woronin body · foreign body · Beltian body · swap body · orebody · Beccarian body · Wolffian body · real body · nosybody · upper body · rainbow body · basal body · black body · monobody · busybody · overbody · swapbody · ketone body · homebody · heavenly body · the other body · ciliary body · pineal body · Donovan body · busy body · housebody · after body · unbody · Pick body · subtle body · Russell body · traybody · public body · crossbody · everybody · mammillary body · acetone body · interbody · planetary body · handlebody · corpse · Peabody · fruit body · vitreous body · rigid body · appendant body · peak body · solidbody · body pack · fruiting body

Meronyms

body part · limb · arm · skeleton · organ · organ system · hand · trunk · head · leg

Relateds

visceral · anatomy · corporeal · corporal · physiology

Synonyms

flesh · quarrons · bod · soma · bones · body · carcass · tabernacle · likam

Translations (661)

hu karosszéria (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · kea korpe (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · xal бий (physical structure of a human or animal) · my ကိုယ် (physical structure of a human or animal) · ar جِسِم (physical structure of a human or animal) · iu ᑎᒥ (physical structure of a human or animal) · sh ко̀рпус (collection of knowledge) · ta அமைப்பு (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · itl kilx-ɫ uvik (physical structure of a human or animal) · zh 物體 /物体 (any physical object or material thing) · ug تەن (physical structure of a human or animal) · pl korpus (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · el κορμί (physical structure of a human or animal) · pl karoseria (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · pl ciało (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · tpw eté class pluriform (physical structure of a human or animal) · de Funktionsrumpf (programming: code of a subroutine) · fi elin (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · naq soros (physical structure of a human or animal) · gug tete (physical structure of a human or animal) · hi दल (group having a common purpose or opinion) · as শৰীৰ (physical structure of a human or animal) · bg бо́ди (bodysuit) · hu test (comparative viscosity, solidity or substance) · sv kropp (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · ro trup (physical structure of a human or animal) · es cuerpo (physical structure of a human or animal) · arc ܦܓܪܐ (physical structure of a human or animal) · ta உடல் (physical structure of a human or animal) · ru аппара́т (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · kea korpu (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · vi mình (physical structure of a human or animal) · sh о̀рга̄н (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · sh тије̑ло (physical structure of a human or animal) · wo yaram (physical structure of a human or animal) · la corpus (physical structure of a human or animal) · tab беден (physical structure of a human or animal) · ko 신체 (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · da karrosse (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · es carcasa (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · km តួខ្លួន (physical structure of a human or animal) · wa coir (physical structure of a human or animal) · lt kūnas (physical structure of a human or animal) · zh 法人 (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · rsk цело (physical structure of a human or animal) · de Karosserie (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · dlm quarp (physical structure of a human or animal) · nn karosseri (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · uk колекти́в (group having a common purpose or opinion) · bn ওজুদ (physical structure of a human or animal) · ne शरीर (physical structure of a human or animal) · ga comhlacht (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · gu જિસમ (physical structure of a human or animal) · yo ara (physical structure of a human or animal) · niv вить (physical structure of a human or animal) · sk telo (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · cv ӳт (physical structure of a human or animal) · mn ᠪᠡᠶ᠎ᠡ (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · sk organizácia (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · tpi bodi (physical structure of a human or animal) · pt carroceria (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · hu test (physical structure of a human or animal) · vec còrp (physical structure of a human or animal) · pt corpus (collection of knowledge) · arc ܦܓܪܐ (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · hu tábor (group having a common purpose or opinion) · ota بدن (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · sh skȕp (group having a common purpose or opinion) · haw kino (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · nl massa (collection of knowledge) · ta உடம்பு (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · fi täyteläisyys (comparative viscosity, solidity or substance) · cs tělo (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · sl telo (any physical object or material thing) · pt ente (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · pap kurpa (physical structure of a human or animal) · nl carrosserie (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · mnc ᠪᡝᠶᡝ (physical structure of a human or animal) · mn бие (physical structure of a human or animal) · tk beden (physical structure of a human or animal) · fy liif (physical structure of a human or animal) · bin ègbé (physical structure of a human or animal) · ain トゥマㇺ (physical structure of a human or animal) · ce дегӏ (physical structure of a human or animal) · ota وجود (physical structure of a human or animal) · fa پِیْکَر (physical structure of a human or animal) · pt grosso (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · sh mnòštvo (group having a common purpose or opinion) · sk útvar (group having a common purpose or opinion) · as গা (physical structure of a human or animal) · txb kektseñe (physical structure of a human or animal) · ban awak (physical structure of a human or animal) · pl organizm (physical structure of a human or animal) · fr corps (substance, material presence) · tl katawan (physical structure of a human or animal) · et kogu (collection of knowledge) · pro corps (physical structure of a human or animal) · tr kuruluş (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · it corpo (any physical object or material thing) · ast cuerpu (physical structure of a human or animal) · tr vücut (physical structure of a human or animal) · cs skupina (group having a common purpose or opinion) · cs tělo (physical structure of a human or animal) · nv atsʼíís (physical structure of a human or animal) · hu testület (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · yai тан (physical structure of a human or animal) · tpi mit (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · pt substância (comparative viscosity, solidity or substance) · sa देह (physical structure of a human or animal) · cs seskupení (group having a common purpose or opinion) · sh tȇlo (any physical object or material thing) · hy մարմին (any physical object or material thing) · sk body (bodysuit) · nn kropp (physical structure of a human or animal) · hwc body (physical structure of a human or animal) · zh 團體 /团体 (group having a common purpose or opinion) · sk realizácia (substance, material presence) · kix tsôu (physical structure of a human or animal) · ca cos (physical structure of a human or animal) · arc ܓܘܫܡܐ (substance, material presence) · ba тән (physical structure of a human or animal) · tr gövde (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · hu test (substance, material presence) · da karrosseri (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · sh tȇlo (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · nb organ (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · hu test (any physical object or material thing) · et rahvas (group having a common purpose or opinion) · lbe чурх (physical structure of a human or animal) · vi chất (substance, material presence) · mrj кӓп (physical structure of a human or animal) · et ihu (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · ta உள்ளடக்கம் (main content of a text) · kk дене (physical structure of a human or animal) · za ndang (physical structure of a human or animal) · ja(physical structure of a human or animal) · fur cuarp (physical structure of a human or animal) · dv ހަށިގަނޑު (physical structure of a human or animal) · cu ⱅⱑⰾⱁ (physical structure of a human or animal) · ga corp (physical structure of a human or animal) · umb etimba (physical structure of a human or animal) · hi तन (physical structure of a human or animal) · bh देह (physical structure of a human or animal) · kmr beden (physical structure of a human or animal) · hsb ćěło (physical structure of a human or animal) · it ente (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · zh 身體 /身体 (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · el σώμα (physical structure of a human or animal) · bni nzoto (physical structure of a human or animal) · it scafo (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · kn ಶರೀರ (physical structure of a human or animal) · de Körperschaft (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · io korpo (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · mi kōhiwi (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · tt бәдән (physical structure of a human or animal) · ota بدن (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · bo སྒལ་པ (physical structure of a human or animal) · ota جسم (physical structure of a human or animal) · da krop (physical structure of a human or animal) · ur دیہْ (physical structure of a human or animal) · hy մարմին (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · sk skupina (group having a common purpose or opinion) · am ሰውነት (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · sh ȍdrēd (group having a common purpose or opinion) · arc ܓܘܫܡܐ (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · de Körper (comparative viscosity, solidity or substance) · es cuerpo (main content of a text) · ja 肉体 (physical 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physical object or material thing) · ru те́ло (programming: code of a subroutine) · kl timi (physical structure of a human or animal) · sh cjelìna (collection of knowledge) · mn ᠪᠡᠶ᠎ᠡ (physical structure of a human or animal) · ang līchama (physical structure of a human or animal) · wa coir (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · pt corpo (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · nv hatsʼíís (physical structure of a human or animal) · ur تَن (physical structure of a human or animal) · dsb śěło (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · ca cos (collection of knowledge) · fa تَن (physical structure of a human or animal) · ga corp (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · sh мно̀штво (group having a common purpose or opinion) · jv badan (physical structure of a human or animal) · pt equipe (group having a common purpose or opinion) · crh kevde (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · ga corp (main content of a text) · fa پَیْکَر (physical structure of a human or animal) · cy corff (physical structure of a human or animal) · pt substância (substance, material presence) · pa ਸਰੀਰ (physical structure of a human or animal) · el σώμα (substance, material presence) · csm míw·eˀa- (physical structure of a human or animal) · mfe lekor (physical structure of a human or animal) · ae 𐬙𐬀𐬥𐬎 (physical structure of a human or animal) · sk orgán (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · hi शरीर (physical structure of a human or animal) · pl grono (group having a common purpose or opinion) · sk súbor (collection of knowledge) · id badan (physical structure of a human or animal) · cs tělo (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · eo ĉefparto (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · fi runko (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · nl lichaam (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · pdc Kareper (physical structure of a human or animal) · ale ingiyux (physical structure of a human or animal) · bcl lawas (physical structure of a human or animal) · hy մարմին (physical structure of a human or animal) · ru ко́рпус (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · tr karoser (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · sk telo (physical structure of a human or animal) · nl lijf (section of a dress) · grc σῶμα (physical structure of a human or animal) · fr corps (physical structure of a human or animal) · et kere (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · fi vartalo (section of a dress) · br korv (physical structure of a human or animal) · ur جِسْم (physical structure of a human or animal) · jv awak (physical structure of a human or animal) · hi बदन (physical structure of a human or animal) · lv ķermenis (physical structure of a human or animal) · ota جثه (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · fr corps (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · ca carrosseria (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · se rumaš (physical structure of a human or animal) · sh те̑ло (physical structure of a human or animal) · gld бэе (physical structure of a human or animal) · bg плът (substance, material presence) · yi גוף (physical structure of a human or animal) · it corpo (comparative viscosity, solidity or substance) · fi ohjelmakoodi (programming: code of a subroutine) · de Körper (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · cs těleso (any physical object or material thing) · nb kropp (physical structure of a human or animal) · fa تَن (physical structure of a human or animal) · scn corpu (physical structure of a human or animal) · ar جسم (physical structure of a human or animal) · mi kaunoti (largest or most important part of 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(organisation, company or other authoritative group) · hi संघ (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · sk objekt (any physical object or material thing) · izh ruume (physical structure of a human or animal) · av къаркъала (physical structure of a human or animal) · is líkami (physical structure of a human or animal) · it carrozzeria (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · fi muoto (substance, material presence) · ain ネトパケ (physical structure of a human or animal) · ota بدن (physical structure of a human or animal) · sh trȗp (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · my ကာယ (physical structure of a human or animal) · sh karosèrija (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · fi liha (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · ta கூட்டம் (group having a common purpose or opinion) · cs body (bodysuit) · hy մարմին (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · et asi (any physical object or material thing) · sh tijȇlo (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · az gövdə (physical structure of a human or animal) · zh 本體 /本体 (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · pal tan (physical structure of a human or animal) · uli haloang (physical structure of a human or animal) · mt ġisem (any physical object or material thing) · zh 身體 /身体 (physical structure of a human or animal) · kea korpe (physical structure of a human or animal) · am አካል (physical structure of a human or animal) · km រាងកាយ (physical structure of a human or animal) · el κορμί (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · tr korpus (collection of knowledge) · sv kaross (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · mt ġisem (physical structure of a human or animal) · igl ọ́la (physical structure of a human or animal) · ain トゥママ (physical structure of a human or animal) · ar جسم (physical structure of a human or animal) · pl ciało (physical structure of a human or animal) · pdc Kaerper (physical structure of a human or animal) · bn শরীর (physical structure of a human or animal) · vi thân thể (physical structure of a human or animal) · gl corpo (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · ota تن (physical structure of a human or animal) · rhg gaa (physical structure of a human or animal) · ky тулку (physical structure of a human or animal) · de Rumpf (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · sa शरीर (physical structure of a human or animal) · ist cuorpo (physical structure of a human or animal) · mn бие (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · fr organisation (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · ta குழு (group having a common purpose or opinion) · haw kino (physical structure of a human or animal) · ga corp (any physical object or material thing) · sl telo (physical structure of a human or animal) · hu csoport (group having a common purpose or opinion) · bg група (group having a common purpose or opinion) · ms jasad (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · be це́ла (physical structure of a human or animal) · sh тило (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · mzn تن (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · ca buc (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · mi hope (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · hu testesség (comparative viscosity, solidity or substance) · sh tijȇlo (comparative viscosity, solidity or substance) · he גּוּף (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · bg тяло (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · el σώμα (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · km ខ្លួន (physical structure of a human or animal) · az ban (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · te శరీరము (physical structure of a human or animal) · ota جثه (physical structure of a human or animal) · da karosse (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · ru те́ло (any physical object or material thing) · mba lawa (physical structure of a human or animal) · sv kropp (any physical object or material thing) · et asutus (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · om nafa (physical structure of a human or animal) · vi hội (group having a common purpose or opinion) · it organo (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · pt órgão (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · got 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺 (physical structure of a human or animal) · ru организа́ция (group having a common purpose or opinion) · sh супста̀нција (substance, material presence) · uz sostav (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · rom trupo (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · sh тије̑ло (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · de Karosse (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · gu કાયા (physical structure of a human or animal) · it corpo (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · pt maiô (bodysuit) · rom trupo (physical structure of a human or animal) · ht(physical structure of a human or animal) · oj niiyaw (physical structure of a human or animal) · hu törzs (programming: code of a subroutine) · ar جَسَد (physical structure of a human or animal) · ru ку́зов (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · vi thân (physical structure of a human or animal) · hi देह (physical structure of a human or animal) · nl deel (any physical object or material thing) · nn organ (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · am አካል (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · ja 団体 (group having a common purpose or opinion) · tr beden (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · sh тије̑ло (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · kln borto (physical structure of a human or animal) · gu બદન (physical structure of a human or animal) · cs organizace (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · sh цјелѝна (collection of knowledge) · th กาย (physical structure of a human or animal) · ckb لەش (physical structure of a human or animal) · az əyin (physical structure of a human or animal) · ta பொருள் (substance, material presence) · sh главнѝна (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · nl deeltje (any physical object or material thing) · cop ϣⲟⲗϩⲥ (physical structure of a human or animal) · he מֶרְכָּב (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · mi tinana (physical structure of a human or animal) · nb karosseri (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · lad puerpo (physical structure of a human or animal) · pl kadłub (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · sh tijȇlo (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · mrw lawas (physical structure of a human or animal) · nl massa (group having a common purpose or opinion) · ig àrụ (physical structure of a human or animal) · el σώμα (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · eu soin (physical structure of a human or animal) · niv ӿал (physical structure of a human or animal) · wmw mwiri (physical structure of a human or animal) · sk stelesnenie (substance, material presence) · ko 본체 (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · qu kurku (physical structure of a human or animal) · pa ਪਿੰਡਾ (physical structure of a human or animal) · sh òrgān (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · mi tukunui (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · eve илрэ (physical structure of a human or animal) · nl hoofddeel (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · mzn بتیم (physical structure of a human or animal) · he עֶצֶם (any physical object or material thing) · rap hakari (physical structure of a human or animal) · fa اَنْدام (group having a common purpose or opinion) · de Körper (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · fa بَدَن (physical structure of a human or animal) · el οργάνωση (group having a common purpose or opinion) · crh kevde (physical structure of a human or animal) · ms badan (physical structure of a human or animal) · rue тѣло (physical structure of a human or animal) · bcl hawak (physical structure of a human or animal) · izh ruumis (physical structure of a human or animal) · mhr кап (physical structure of a human or animal) · sh тије̑ло (substance, material presence) · is kjarni (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · bg изложение (main content of a text) · pl ciało (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · el σκελετός (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · sh те̑ло (any physical object or material thing) · ijc ọngọ́ (physical structure of a human or animal) · fi toimielin (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · si ශරීරය (physical structure of a human or animal) · el σώμα (any physical object or material thing) · ba тән (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · sv kropp (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · zh 機構 /机构 (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · fi keho (physical structure of a human or animal) · sq trup (physical structure of a human or animal) · vi phường hội (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · ms tubuh (physical structure of a human or animal) · ru плоть (substance, material presence) · sh тру̑п (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · pt corpo (physical structure of a human or animal) · uz badan (physical structure of a human or animal) · el γραμματολογία (collection of knowledge) · io korpo (physical structure of a human or animal) · str S¸EȽTÁLṈEW̱ (physical structure of a human or animal) · av черх (physical structure of a human or animal) · inh дегӏ (physical structure of a human or animal) · et keha (physical structure of a human or animal) · ur شَرِیر (physical structure of a human or animal) · af liggaam (physical structure of a human or animal) · fo kroppur (physical structure of a human or animal) · sh тије̑ло (comparative viscosity, solidity or substance) · msk lawas (physical structure of a human or animal) · bn দেহ (physical structure of a human or animal) · sh tijȇlo (any physical object or material thing) · ps باډۍ (physical structure of a human or animal) · es cuerpo (collection of knowledge) · mvi どぅー (physical structure of a human or animal) · mer mwiri (physical structure of a human or animal) · bg корпора́ция (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · ulb ara (physical structure of a human or animal) · ur بَدَن (physical structure of a human or animal) · pt corpo (main content of a text) · he גּוּף (group having a common purpose or opinion) · esu tema (physical structure of a human or animal) · is meginmál (programming: code of a subroutine) · nl organisatie (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · zh 有黏性 (comparative viscosity, solidity or substance) · fa سازْمان (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · vi xô viết (organisation, company or other authoritative group) · sh srȅdīšte (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · dsb śěło (physical structure of a human or animal) · xal цогц (physical structure of a human or animal) · tpi bodi (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human) · sat ᱪᱳᱞᱚ (physical structure of a human or animal) · hy թափք (largest or most important part of anything (e.g. car bodywork) — see also bodywork, fuselage, hull) · sh ти̑ло (physical structure of a human or animal) · ryu(physical structure of a human or animal) · sk množstvo (collection of knowledge) · cho haknip (physical structure of a human or animal) · bua бэе (physical structure of a human or animal) · sh ску̑п (group having a common purpose or opinion) · bg тяло (main content of a text) · gu તન (physical structure of a human or animal) · ki mwĩrĩ (physical structure of a human or animal) · ka სხეული (physical structure of a human or animal) · hu csapat (group having a common purpose or opinion) · nl lichaam (physical structure of a human or animal)

body en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • [ˈbɑdɪi̯] ~(d-flapping)[ˈbɑɾɪi̯] (General-American)
  • /ˈbɑdi/ (General-American)
  • audio SSB
  • /-dɪ/ (Scotland)
  • /ˈbɔdiɪj/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈbɔdɪi̯] (Australia)
  • /ˈbɔdi/ (Australia)
  • /ˈbɒdi/ (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈbɒdi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [ˈbɔdɪi̯] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /-di/ (Scotland)
  • [ˈbɒdɪi̯] ~(conservatively)[ˈbɒdɪ] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈbɔde/ (Scotland)
  • [ˈbɔ̟dɪi̯] ~ [ˈbɞ̠dɪi̯] (New-Zealand)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- Proto-West Germanic *bodag Old English bodiġ Middle English bodi English body From Middle English body, bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”). Cognate with Old High German botah (“body, corpse, trunk, torso”) (whence Swabian Bottich (“body, torso”), Bavarian Bottich (“body, torso, carcass; lower part of a shirt or jacket”)).

Meanings

  1. (often, transitive, with forth) To give body or shape to something.
    • 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 is bodying 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. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:
    • And as imagination bodies 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. c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
    • [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 you body forth before your eyes a picture like the following— […] 1851 March 22, “The Foreign Country at Home. IV. Abergavenny to Swansea.”, in Leigh Hunt, editor, Leigh Hunt’s Journal; a Miscellany for the Cultivation of the Memorable, the Progressive, and the Beautiful, volume I, number 16, London: […] Stewart & Murray, […], →OCLC, page 255:
  2. To construct the bodywork of a car.
  3. (transitive) To embody.
    • I don’t say, one bodies the other / One’s spiritual truth; / But I do say it’s hard to lose either, / When you have both. 1955, Philip Larkin, Toads:
  4. (qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang, transitive) To murder someone.
  5. (broadly, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang, transitive) To murder someone. ▸ To utterly defeat someone.
    • I keep getting bodied by kids half my age. 2023, “Gaming at 24”, in hyperx (comic):

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bodied Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bodied Tense=Past lexicographic
bodies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
bodie alternative, obsolete lexicographic
bodying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic