Physical frame.
I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
Main section.
(countable) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]
Coherent group.
I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
To give body or shape to something.
And as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen / Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name.
To construct the bodywork of a car.
A surname transferred from the nickname.
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
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, t...
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To embody.
I don’t say, one bodies the other / One’s spiritual truth; / But I do say it’s hard to lose either, / When you have both.