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) Curia ((Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church)
S: (n) top brass (the most important persons in a governing body)
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) Ashcan School, Eight (a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life)
S: (n) deconstructivism (a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction)
S: (n) historical school (a school of 19th century German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms)
S: (n) pointillism (a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France)
S: (n) art nouveau (a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers)
S: (n) lake poets (English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it)
S: (n) secession, sezession (an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s)
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) gown (the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located) "the relations between town and gown are always sensitive"
S: (n) varsity (a British abbreviation of `university'; usually refers to Oxford University or Cambridge 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) Plantation (a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)) "the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century"
S: (n) Demerara (a former Dutch colony in South America; now a part of Guyana)
S: (n) Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar, Calpe (location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules)
S: (n) Plymouth Colony (colony formed by the Pilgrims when they arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620; it was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691)
S: (n) New Amsterdam (a settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island; annexed by the English in 1664 and renamed New York)
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) Rome (the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church)
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) profession (the body of people in a learned occupation) "the news spread rapidly through the medical profession"; "they formed a community of scientists"
S: (n) legal profession, bar, legal community (the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction) "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey"
S: (n) health profession (the body of individuals whose work helps to maintain the health of their clients)
S: (n) Iraqi National Congress, INC (a heterogeneous collection of groups united in their opposition to Saddam Hussein's government of Iraq; formed in 1992 it is comprised of Sunni and Shiite Arabs and Kurds who hope to build a new government)
S: (n) immigration (the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval) "the increased immigration strengthened the colony"
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"