Meaning

3 senses
  1. (US)A hospital corpsman.

    The corpsman prescribed Motrin to the sick marine for his symptoms.

  2. (nonstandard)A military medic.

  3. (US, obsolete)An enlisted person in the U.S. Army who works as a field medic.

    санита́рsanitár

Translations

1 languages
Русский
An enlisted person in the U.S. Army who works as a field medic:

Origin

From corps + -man.

From corps + -man.

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Forms

plural: corpsmen
Singularcorpsman
Pluralcorpsmen

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Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
corpsman — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto