Overview of noun corporal

The noun corporal has 1 sense

• corporal -- (a noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines)

Overview of adj corporal

The adj corporal has 2 senses

• bodily, corporal, corporeal, somatic -- (affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness")


• bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate -- (possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term")