Usually means: Military rank below sergeant.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word corporal:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. corporal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. corporal, corporal, corporal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. corporal, corporal, corporal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. corporal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. corporal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Corporal, corporal: Wordnik
  7. corporal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. corporal: Wiktionary
  9. corporal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. corporal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. corporal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. corporal: Dictionary.com
  13. corporal (adj.), corporal (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. corporal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Corporal(rank), Corporal (band), Corporal (liturgy), Corporal (rank), Corporal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Corporal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. corporal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. corporal: Rhymezone
  19. corporal, corporal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. corporal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Corporal: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. corporal: Free Dictionary
  23. corporal: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. corporal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. corporal: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. corporal: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Corporal: Catholic Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  (archaic) Having a physical, tangible body; material, corporeal.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the body, especially the human body; bodily.
adjective:  (zoology) Pertaining to the body (the thorax and abdomen), as distinguished from the head, limbs and wings, etc.
noun:  (military) A non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4. The rank below a sergeant but above a lance corporal and private.
noun:  A non-commissioned officer rank in the police force, below a sergeant but above a private or patrolman.
noun:  (mining, historical) A worker in charge of the wagonway, reporting to the deputy.
noun:  A dragonfly of the genus Ladona.
noun:  (ecclesiastical) The white linen cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed; a communion cloth.

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