Usually means: Dead body of a human.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. corpse: Merriam-Webster
  2. corpse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. corpse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. corpse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. corpse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Corpse, corpse: Wordnik
  7. corpse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. corpse: Wiktionary
  9. corpse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. corpse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. corpse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. corpse: Dictionary.com
  13. corpse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. corpse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Corpse (disambiguation), Corpse, The Corpse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Corpse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. corpse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. corpse: Rhymezone
  19. corpse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. corpse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. corpse: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. corpse: FreeDictionary.org
  23. corpse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. corpse: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. corpse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. corpse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. corpse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. corpse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. corpse: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Corpse: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. corpse: Medical dictionary
  5. Corpse: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. corpse: The Limited Encyclopedia of Grave Terminology
  2. CORPSE: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. corpse, corpse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Corpse, corpse: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  2. Corpse: Sports Definitions

(Note: See corpses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A dead body, especially that of a human as opposed to an animal.
noun:  (archaic, sometimes derogatory) A human body in general, whether living or dead.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, of an actor) To laugh uncontrollably during a performance.
verb:  (transitive, slang, of an actor) To cause another actor to do this.

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