Meaning

noun the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)

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

noun a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person

originEtymology 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,…

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