subcorpus

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noun

A subset of a corpus.

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Meanings

nounsubcorpus (plural subcorpora)

plural subcorpora

  1. A subset of a corpus.

    Thus the word react occurs 2331 times in the Chemistry subcorpus, reacts occurs 2195 times, etc., and adding all members together, the REACT family occurs 27,991 times throughout Chemistry.

    2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 110

Origin

From sub- + corpus.

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APA

subcorpus. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subcorpus

MLA

“subcorpus.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subcorpus. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “subcorpus,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subcorpus.

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