A corporal is a non-commissioned officer in the army or United States Marines. The corporal shouted an order at the men. Corporal Devereux. a low rank in the army, air force etc (caporal, from caporale, from capo )
In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry
possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term"