Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
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Noun
S: (n) body, organic structure (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)) "he felt as if his whole body were on fire"
S: (n) body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity) "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body"
S: (n) public (a body of people sharing some common interest) "the reading public"
S: (n) Christendom, Christianity (the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia)) "for a thousand years the Roman Catholic Church was the principal church of Christendom"
S: (n) church (the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church) "our church is hosting a picnic next week"
S: (n) administration, governance, governing body, establishment, brass, organization, organisation (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something) "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"
S: (n) corps (a body of people associated together) "diplomatic corps"
S: (n) constituency (the body of voters who elect a representative for their area)
S: (n) electoral college (the body of electors who formally elect the United States president and vice president)
S: (n) school (a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers) "the Venetian school of painting"
S: (n) college (the body of faculty and students of a college)
S: (n) university (the body of faculty and students at a university)
S: (n) staff, faculty (the body of teachers and administrators at a school) "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university"
S: (n) representation (a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency) "a Congressional vacancy occurred in the representation from California"
S: (n) colony, settlement (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government) "the American colony in Paris"
S: (n) ulema, ulama (the body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community)
S: (n) leadership, leaders (the body of people who lead a group) "the national leadership adopted his plan"
S: (n) militia (the entire body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service) "their troops were untrained militia"; "Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia"--United States Constitution
S: (n) membership, rank (the body of members of an organization or group) "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed"
S: (n) body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity) "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body"
S: (n) society (an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization)
S: (n) minority (a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part)
S: (n) sector (a social group that forms part of the society or the economy) "the public sector"
S: (n) interest, interest group ((usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims) "the iron interests stepped up production"
S: (n) phylum ((linguistics) a large group of languages that are historically related)
S: (n) force (a group of people having the power of effective action) "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"
S: (n) platoon (a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity) "platoons of tourists poured out of the busses"; "the defensive platoon of the football team"
S: (n) revolving door (an organization or institution with a high rate of turnover of personnel or membership)
S: (n) set, circle, band, lot (an unofficial association of people or groups) "the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot"
S: (n) moiety (one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe)
S: (n) tribe, folk (a social division of (usually preliterate) people)
S: (n) movement, social movement, front (a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals) "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front"
S: (n) wing (a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function) "they are the progressive wing of the Republican Party"
S: (n) body, dead body (a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person) "they found the body in the lake"
S: (n) body (an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects) "heavenly body"
S: (n) torso, trunk, body (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs) "they moved their arms and legs and bodies"
S: (n) body (a collection of particulars considered as a system) "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"
S: (n) consistency, consistence, substance, body (the property of holding together and retaining its shape) "wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake"
S: (n) body (the central message of a communication) "the body of the message was short"