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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. Thursday after Trinity Sunday; first celebrated in 1246;

2. a city in southern Texas on an arm of the Gulf of Mexico;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Corpus \Cor"pus\ (-p[u^]s), n.; pl. Corpora (-p[-o]*r[.a]). [L.] A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing. [1913 Webster] Corpus callosum (k[a^]l*l[=o]"s[u^]m); pl. Corpora callosa (-s?) [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain. Corpus Christi (kr[i^]s"t[imac]) [L., body of Christ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx. Corpus delicti (d[-e]*l[i^]k"t[imac]) [L., the body of the crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime. Corpus luteum (l[=u]"t[-e]*[u^]m); pl. Corpora lutea (-[.a]). [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary. Corpus striatum (str[-i]*[=a]"t[u^]m); pl. Corpora striata (-t[.a]). [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Corpus Christi n 1: Thursday after Trinity Sunday; first celebrated in 1246 2: a city in southern Texas on an arm of the Gulf of Mexico
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

54 Moby Thesaurus words for "Corpus Christi": Advent, Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation, Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, Candlemas, Candlemas Day, Carnival, Christmas, Easter, Easter Monday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Eastertide, Ember days, Epiphany, Good Friday, Halloween, Hallowmas, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Lady Day, Lammas, Lammas Day, Lammastide, Lent, Lententide, Mardi Gras, Martinmas, Maundy Thursday, Michaelmas, Michaelmas Day, Michaelmastide, Palm Sunday, Pancake Day, Passion Week, Pentecost, Quadragesima, Quadragesima Sunday, Septuagesima, Shrove Tuesday, Trinity Sunday, Twelfth-day, Twelfth-tide, Whit-Tuesday, White Sunday, Whitmonday, Whitsun, Whitsunday, Whitsuntide, Whitweek
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Corpus Christi, TX -- U.S. city in Texas Population (2000): 277454 Housing Units (2000): 107831 Land area (2000): 154.639124 sq. miles (400.513476 sq. km) Water area (2000): 305.597535 sq. miles (791.493948 sq. km) Total area (2000): 460.236659 sq. miles (1192.007424 sq. km) FIPS code: 17000 Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48 Location: 27.742857 N, 97.401927 W ZIP Codes (1990): 78401 78402 78404 78405 78406 78407 78408 78409 78410 78411 78412 78413 78414 78415 78416 78417 78418 78419 78473 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Corpus Christi, TX Corpus Christi