CORPORAL

Corporal

Corporal is a military rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. Within NATO, each member nations corresponding military rank of corporal is combined under the NATO-standard rank scale code OR-4.

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corporal

Noun

  1. A non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4. The rank below a sergeant but above a lance corporal and private.
  2. A non-commissioned officer rank in the police force, below a sergeant but above a private or patrolman.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The white linen cloth on which the elements of the eucharist are placed; a communion cloth.

Adjective

  1. Having a physical, tangible body; corporeal.
    Quotation
    • 1603-06: "Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted as breath into the wind." — Macbeth: Ac.1 Sc3, Wm. Shakespeare.
  2. Of or pertaining to the body, especially the human body.


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