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body is a noun:

  1. 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."
  2. 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. A corpse.
    "Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder."
  4. 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."
  5. The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
    "The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape."
  6. 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."
  7. A person.
  8. An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
    "The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track."
  9. A group of men or people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
    "I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards."
  10. A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
    "We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion."
  11. Any physical object or material thing.
    "All bodies are held together by internal forces."
  12. Substance; physical presence.
    "We have given body to what was just a vague idea."
  13. Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
    "The rioja, sadly, lacked body."
  14. The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.W

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is body?

As detailed above, 'body' is a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
  2. Noun usage: The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
  3. Noun usage: Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
  4. Noun usage: The boxer took a blow to the body.
  5. Noun usage: The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
  6. Noun usage: Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
  7. Noun usage: The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
  8. Noun usage: I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
  9. Noun usage: We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
  10. Noun usage: All bodies are held together by internal forces.
  11. Noun usage: We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
  12. Noun usage: The rioja, sadly, lacked body.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of body are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of body, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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