from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A dead body, especially one intended for dissection.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun A dead body; a corpse: as, “a mere cadaver,” Boyle; especially, a body prepared or used for dissection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun A dead human body; a corpse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun the dead body of a human being
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Latin cadāver, from cadere, to fall, die; see kad- in Indo-European roots.]
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Recorded since c.1500, from Latin cadāver, probably from cadō ("I fall") as a metaphor for "I die", also source (through combining form -cida) of the -cide in suicide, homicide etc.
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I love the piece, the Trio, the Flute Sonata, Dialogues des Carmelites, and Fiancailles pour rire (how can you resist a text like "my cadaver is soft as a glove"?) but I think maybe you're reading history back into the Sextet, rather than finding it there.
These images of Christmas cheer are miles away from where I sit now, at the Spence Academy for Young Ladies, forced to construct a drummer boy ornament using only tinfoil, cotton, and a small bit of string, as if performing some diabolical experiment in cadaver regeneration.
Yet Brown’s response to the loss of one who was trying to make as good a fist as possible of the post of defence procurement is to appoint a political cadaver from the Necropolis of the ‘Winter of Discontent’.
Yet Brown’s response to the loss of one who was trying to make as good a fist as possible of the post of defence procurement is to appoint a political cadaver from the Necropolis of the ‘Winter of Discontent’.
maire commented on the word cadaver
you must be crazy to think we cadaver have a relationship now that you're dead.
November 1, 2007
bilby commented on the word cadaver
Teehee!
April 7, 2008