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Core
/kɔː/
The most important part or central part of something
Synonyms:
center
heart
nucleus
essence
crux
Antonyms:
This word has no antonyms
Examples:
Shaken to the
core
, if you know what I mean.
The apple's
core
held the seeds for new life.
At the
core
of the Earth, temperatures rise sharply.
Etymology:
From Middle French
core
, from Latin
corpus
meaning
body
. Before that, related to Old Latin
cor
, analogous to Old English
heorte
.
Usage Statistics:
53 mentions per 1 million words
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