Meaning

noun any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)

noun the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance

noun alternative names for the body of a human being

originFrom Middle English shap, schape, from Old English ġesceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *skap, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skapą (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”). The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English…

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