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- noun The human body.
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- noun The
human body . - noun A dead body;
corpse . - noun archaic or obsolete
Likeness ;face ;countenance .
Etymologies
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From Middle English likam, licam, licame, lichame, from Old English līcema, līchama ("body, corpse; trunk"), from Proto-Germanic *līkahamô (“body, bodily frame, corpse”), equivalent to like (“body, lich”) + hame (“covering, case”). Cognate with Scots lekame ("body"), Eastern Frisian licman ("body"), West Frisian lichem ("body"), Dutch lichaam ("body"), German Leichnam ("body, corpse"), Danish legeme ("body"), Swedish lekamen ("body"), Icelandic líkami ("body").
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