Body Meaning
/ˈbɒd.iː/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounPhysical frame.
nounPhysical frame., The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
Sentence Examples
A bear will not touch a dead body.
The climate has much to do with our mind and body.
The human body is a complex structure.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The adult human ____ contains millions of living complex cells.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The human ____ needs regular exercise and healthy food to stay well.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- Proto-West Germanic *bodag Old English bodiġ Middle English bodi English body From Middle English body, bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”). Cognate with Old High German botah (“body, corpse, trunk, torso”) (whence Swabian Bottich (“body, torso”), Bavarian Bottich (“body, torso, carcass; lower part of a shirt or jacket”)).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body?
And if the eare shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body?
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
But now hath God set the members, euery one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
And if they were all one member, where were the body?
But now are they many members, yet but one body."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 12:15–20:
"Lizzo, who is known for messages of self-love and wider acceptance, has recently said as much as she shared that she is encouraging a stance of body neutrality for herself and others. […] “Everyone’s bodies change,” she said. “That’s life, that’s what the human existence is.”"
— 2023 May 29, Madeline Holcombe, “Lizzo is teaching us about body neutrality. Here is what it means and how to get there”, in CNN, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
"The bodies of 19-year-old best friends Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones were returned to Australia on Tuesday night."
— 2024 November 27, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, “Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers”, in CNN:
"Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing."
— 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 28, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:
"“Well,” I says, “I cal’late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going."
— 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The adult human ____ contains millions of living complex cells.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The human ____ needs regular exercise and healthy food to stay well.