What is the meaning of corporal?

noun

  • A noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines.

adjective

  • Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit.
    • usage: "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness"
  • Possessing or existing in bodily form.
    • usage: "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term"
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