CORPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corps mean? 

• CORPS (noun)
  The noun CORPS has 2 senses:

1. an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support

2. a body of people associated together

  Familiarity information: CORPS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

army corps; corps

Hypernyms ("corps" is a kind of...):

army unit (a military unit that is part of an army)

Meronyms (members of "corps"):

division (an army unit large enough to sustain combat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "corps"):

WAC; Women's Army Corps (an army corps that was organized in World War II but is no longer a separate branch of the United States Army)

Reserve Officers Training Corps; ROTC (a training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers)

Holonyms ("corps" is a member of...):

army; ground forces; regular army (a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A body of people associated together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

diplomatic corps

Hypernyms ("corps" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "corps"):

corps diplomatique; diplomatic corps; diplomatic service (the body of diplomatic personnel)

 Context examples 

Colonel Barclay had married at the time when he was a sergeant, and his wife, whose maiden name was Miss Nancy Devoy, was the daughter of a former colour-sergeant in the same corps.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our residence at Canterbury, and our local connexion, will, no doubt, enable him to take advantage of any vacancy that may arise in the Cathedral corps.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When first he entered the corps, she was ready enough to admire him; but so we all were.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I have alluded to him, Reader, because I think I see in him an intellect profounder and more unique than his contemporaries have yet recognised; because I regard him as the first social regenerator of the day—as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the warped system of things; because I think no commentator on his writings has yet found the comparison that suits him, the terms which rightly characterise his talent.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I knew it to be a most respectable, agreeable corps, and my friend Denny tempted me further by his account of their present quarters, and the very great attentions and excellent acquaintances Meryton had procured them.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Had Miss Bingley known what pain she was then giving her beloved friend, she undoubtedly would have refrained from the hint; but she had merely intended to discompose Elizabeth by bringing forward the idea of a man to whom she believed her partial, to make her betray a sensibility which might injure her in Darcy's opinion, and, perhaps, to remind the latter of all the follies and absurdities by which some part of her family were connected with that corps.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“It was greatly my wish that he should do so,” he added, “as soon as his marriage was fixed on. And I think you will agree with me, in considering the removal from that corps as highly advisable, both on his account and my niece's. It is Mr. Wickham's intention to go into the regulars; and among his former friends, there are still some who are able and willing to assist him in the army. He has the promise of an ensigncy in General —'s regiment, now quartered in the North. It is an advantage to have it so far from this part of the kingdom. He promises fairly; and I hope among different people, where they may each have a character to preserve, they will both be more prudent. I have written to Colonel Forster, to inform him of our present arrangements, and to request that he will satisfy the various creditors of Mr. Wickham in and near Brighton, with assurances of speedy payment, for which I have pledged myself. And will you give yourself the trouble of carrying similar assurances to his creditors in Meryton, of whom I shall subjoin a list according to his information? He has given in all his debts; I hope at least he has not deceived us. Haggerston has our directions, and all will be completed in a week. They will then join his regiment, unless they are first invited to Longbourn; and I understand from Mrs. Gardiner, that my niece is very desirous of seeing you all before she leaves the South. She is well, and begs to be dutifully remembered to you and her mother. Yours, etc., E. GARDINER.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Denny addressed them directly, and entreated permission to introduce his friend, Mr. Wickham, who had returned with him the day before from town, and he was happy to say had accepted a commission in their corps.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

As to what restraint the apprehensions of disgrace in the corps might throw on a dishonourable elopement with her, I am not able to judge; for I know nothing of the effects that such a step might produce.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)