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Definition: Nude |
NudeAdjective1. Completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waste up"; "a nude model". Noun1. A painting of a naked figure. 2. As in the phrase "They swam in the nude". 3. A naked person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Nude \Nude\, adjective. [Latin expression nudus. See Naked.]. (references) |
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Computing | Nude adj. Said of machines delivered without an operating system (compare bare metal). "We ordered 50 systems, but they all arrived nude, so we had to spend an extra weekend with the installation disks." This usage is a recent innovation reflecting the fact that most IBM-PC clones are now delivered with an operating system pre-installed at the factory. Other kinds of hardware are still normally delivered without OS, so this term is particular to PC support groups. Source: Jargon File. |
Literature | Nude Rabelais wittily says that a person without clothing is dressed in "grey and cold" of a comical cut, being "nothing before, nothing behind, and sleeves of the same." King Shrovetide, monarch of Sneak Island, was so arrayed. (Rabelais: Gargantua, iv. 29.) The nude statues of Paris are said to be draped in "cerulean blue." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Nudity is the state of wearing no clothing. It is sometimes used to refer to wearing significantly fewer clothes than expected by the conventions of a particular culture and situation, and in particular exposing the bare skin of intimate parts. The term topless is sometimes used to describe the lack of clothing covering the breasts.
The nude is also a genre of representational art, especially painting and sculpture, that depicts people without clothes on.
Overview
Once the universal state of mankind prior to the invention of clothing, nudity is now rare in the presence of others.
Acceptance of nudity and required levels of clothing vary greatly with time and culture; it also depends on whether other people are present, and if so, who. Some nudity is unavoidable when bathing or going to the toilet, but these can and often are done in private.
Nudity in front of a sexual partner is widely accepted, but even here there may be restrictions. For example, only at the time and place of sex, or with subdued lighting, or covered by a sheet or blanket.
Nudity in front of strangers of the same sex is often more accepted than in front of those of the opposite sex, for example in open showers, common changing rooms, etc. Urinals may have partitions between them to avoid the partial nudity of men to be visible by other men. How common they are varies with the country.
On one extreme some people view nudity as sinful or otherwise wrong except in such unavoidable cases, while other people, such as nudists assert that nudity is the natural state that should ideally be always acceptable in public.
Cultural and Religious Views of Nudity
In some hunter-gatherer cultures in warm climates, near-complete nudity was (at least until the introduction of European culture) standard practice for both men and women. However, this was not always the case. For example, native Americans were generally quite prim where nudity was concerned. A notable exception were the Chumash Indians of southern California who were nudists: men were usually naked, women were often topless.
At the most extreme end of the spectrum, one finds some strict interpretations of Islam that require women to cover their entire bodies, including the face (see burka), on threat of severe punishment.
In the West, standards of what constitutes indecent exposure vary widely. In the early 20th century, exposure of male nipples was considered indecent at some beaches. In general and across cultures, most restrictions are found for exposure of those parts of the human body that put in evidence sexual arousal or sexual dimorphism between male and female adults. Therefore, sex organs and women's breasts are often covered.
In the United States of America, exposure of female nipples is still not usually allowed in public; public breastfeeding, since the exposure it involves is functional, may be looked upon more mildly, but still it is sometimes considered problematic. However, courts in some North American jurisdictions—including Ontario and New York State—have legalized the exposure of women's nipples on equal protection grounds (see United States Constitution/Amendment Fourteen). The movement of "topfree equality" promotes equal rights for woman to have no clothing above the waist; the term "topfree" rather than "topless" is used to avoid the sexual connotation of the latter.
In some Northern European countries (for instance Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands), saunas and Spa towns with mixed-sex nudity exist, while in other countries these places always strictly separate the sexes.
Since the mid-20th century designated topless, clothing-optional and strictly-nude beaches have come into vogue. Topless sunbathing is considered acceptable on the beaches of France, Spain and most of the rest of Europe (and even in many outdoor swimming pools); however, exposure of the genitals is restricted to nudist areas.
It is common in many cultures for children's nudity to not be seen as being particularly disturbing until they reach puberty, or more restrictively, until a younger age. Social sensibilities towards the nudity of children have become far more restrictive in many developed countries over the past two decades, while conversely the nudity of adults has become far more acceptable in many of the same places. Newfound social-awareness about paedophilia and child pornography has instilled in cultures concerns over dangers and negativity with child-nudity; the nude form of children has come to hold negative sexual-connotations, while previously prepubescents would often be viewed as being innately asexual. For example, in New Zealand in previous decades the appearance of photographs of naked minors in newspapers and magazines was socially acceptable, whereas the publication of the same depictions nowadays would almost invariably invoke horror and revulsion amongst the readership.
Nudity is closely associated with sexuality in most cultures where some level of body modesty is expected (in that, nudity is considered to be immodest). This is evidenced by the existence of striptease in these cultures. As an effect of Catholic cultural heritage, in Latin cultures the common sense of modesty does not generally admit genital nudity, but the definition of what is lewd has changed and women's breasts are now commonly exposed or depicted without scandal.
According to the Book of Genesis of the Bible, the first two humans ever, Adam and Eve, were nude at first, but after a transgression against God's rules (the original sin), no longer felt comfortable like that and made aprons of fig leaves.
In the past, the Roman Catholic Church organized the so-called fig-leaf campaign to cover nudity in art, starting from the works of Renaissance artist Michelangelo (see Michelangelo Buonarroti for details). Islam prohibits any illustrations of human beings so the question does not arise there. (There have been exceptions to this rule in some Islamic societies, but apparently none involving nudity.)
Some people enjoy public nudity in a non-sexual context. This movement is known as nudism, or naturism, and often practiced in reserved places that used to be called nudist camps but are now properly referred to as nudist (or naturist) resorts, beaches or clubs.
Exploitation of Nudity
Streaking is running naked through a non-nudist public place, usually for fun.
Nudity has sometimes been used to attract more attention to a public protest, a tactic used by the Doukhobors in the early 20th century, and later (particularly from the 1960s onwards) used more widely. Modern slogans include "Disrobe for disarmament", "Nudes, not nukes!", "Naked For Peace", "Dare 2 Bare 4 Freedom + Peace", "I'd rather go naked than wear fur!" and "I Got Rid Of My Bush! Read My Lips - No To War!"
Sometimes the phrase "extreme nudity" is used, implying that the absence of clothing is very special (either good or bad).
Nudity in the Media
Images of partial and full nudity are used in advertising to draw additional attention. In the case of attractive models this attention is due to the visual pleasure the images provide, in other cases it is rather due to the relative rareness of the images. Nudity tends to be carefully dosed to avoid that the advertising company is associated with being indecent or unrefined. There are also limits on what advertising media such as magazines allow. This has given light to the saying "sex sells."
The portrayal of nudity in motion pictures has long been controversial. Because several early films of the silent era featured rampant full nudity and acts bordering on pornography, scenes of nudity were forbidden in mainstream American films by the Hayes Code from the 1930s until the 1960s when the MPAA film rating system was instituted. Since then, many films have featured various levels of nudity, however full frontal nudity (especially featuring male anatomy) is still rare in American cinema. Full nudity has gained much wider acceptance in European cinema, where the audience perceive non-pornographic nudity as comparably less controversial than excessively depictured violence. Nudity in a sexual, but non-pornographic, context has however in many European countries remained on the fringe of what is socially aceptable for public shows, although the limits have been pushed during the 20th century.
Noteworthy films which have featured nudity, and thus gained some controversy at the time of release, include:
Broadcast television and most "basic cable" outlets in the United States have been more reluctant to display nudity in most cases, the exception being PBS. A few series in the 1990s, including NYPD Blue have occasionally used partial nudity. Nude scenes from theatrically released films are usually edited out, obscured in some fashion (such as, digital imagery may be used to clothe nude actors) for television viewing. Several premium cable services such as HBO and Showtime gained popularity for, among other things, presenting uncut films. In addition, they have produced series that do not shy away from nude scenes, including Sex and the City and The Sopranos.
- Romeo and Juliet (dir. Franco Zeffirelli 1968)
- Women in Love (dir. Ken Russell 1969)
- Last Tango in Paris (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci 1972)
- Blue Velvet (dir. David Lynch 1986)
- Basic Instinct (dir. Paul Verhoeven 1992)
- The Piano (dir. Jane Campion 1993)
Nudity occasionally presents itself in other forms of media as well, often with attending controversy. Album cover art featuring nude photographs by performers such as Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Blind Faith, and Jane's Addiction have stirred controversy over the years.
For images of nudity (not necessarily pornography) the most extreme form is "full-frontal" nudity, referring to the fact that the front side of the crotch is exposed. Frequently images of nude people do not go that far and photos are deliberately composed, and films edited, such that in particular no genitalia are seen, as if the camera failed to see them by chance.
Nudity in art, also publicly displayed, is rather common and more accepted than public nudity of real people. For example, a statue or painting representing a nude person may be displayed in public places where actual nudity is not allowed. However, there is also much art depicting a nude person with some piece of cloth seemingly by chance covering the genitals.
On the Internet, especially on websites featuring images well known people, the terms "Nude" or Nudity" has often been used (some would say misused) to signify indecent exposure; for example a photo of an otherwise fully clothed woman with a nipple exposed. See also: Nude celebrities on the Internet.
See also: Indecent exposure, Mooning, Nudism, Nudity in Sports, Original sin, Barenaked Ladies band
External Links
- Streaking information: http://www.streaking.co.uk/erica.htm
- Naked for Peace
- Spencer Tunick: art photos of public mass nudity
The term naked is also used for having no fur, like The Naked Ape, naked mole rat, and figuratively, like naked truth. In Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books the animals frequently refer to Mowgli as being naked, meaning furless, but this draws the reader's attention to the fact that he is also naked in the other sense.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nudity."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Nudity in sport is not an uncommon occurence, today and in the past.In ancient Greece, athletic exercise played an important part. In fact, the Greeks credited several mythological figures with athletic accomplishments.
It was in the city-state of Sparta that the custom of exercising naked was first introduced. From there, it spread to the whole of Greece, and the athletes from all its parts, coming together for the Olympic Games and the other Panhellenic Games, would compete naked in almost all disciplines, such as boxing, wrestling, pankration, stadion and various other foot races, and the pentathlon (made up of wrestling, stadion, long jump, javelin throw, and discus throw). However, they did not perform in the nude during chariot races.
Evidence of Greek nudity in sport comes from the numerous surviving depictions of athletes (sculpture, mosaics, and vase paintings). Famous athletes were honoured with a staue erected for their commemoration (see Milo of Croton). A few writers have insisted that the athletic nudity in Greek art is just an artistic convention, finding it unbelievable that anybody would have run naked. This view should be ascribed to late-Victorian prudishness applied anachronistically to ancient times.
The word gymnasium (from Greek gymnasion), originally denoting a place for education of young men, is another testimony of the nudity in physical exercises; the word being derived from Greek gymnos, mening "naked". The more recent form gym is of course an abbreviation of gymnasium.
In Hellenistic times, Greek-speaking Jews would sometimes take part in athletic exercises. They were then exposed to ridicule because they were circumcised - a custom which was unknown in the Greek tradition.
The Romans, although they took over much of the Greek culture, had a different evaluation of nakedness. To appear naked in public was considered disgusting. However, athletic exercises by free citizens had partly been replaced by gladiatorial games performed in amphitheatres. The gladiators were recruited among slaves, war captives, and convicts. When fighting in the arena, against one another or against wild beasts, they would be armed with swords, shields, etc., but would otherwise be partly or totally naked (see Gladiator for particulars).
When Christianity in the fourth century became the state religion, gladiatorial games were soon abandoned, and the concept of nudity as sinful took over.
Sport in the modern sense of the word became popular only in the 19th century, but nothing approaching nakedness was practised. An exception was in Sweden, where swimming in rivers or lakes was very popular. In the summer, there would be wooden bathhouses, often of considerable size accommodating numerous swimmers, built partly over the water. Hoardings prevented the bathers from being seen from outside. Originally the bathhouses were for men only; today there are usually separate sections for men and women.
For the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912, the official poster was created by a distinguished artist. It depicted a naked Swedish athlete and was for that reason considered too daring for distribution in certain countries.
A group from the south, having been invited in the 1950s to participate in a university students' swimming competition in Stockholm, was surprised to find at their arrival at the (indoors) swimming pool that their swimming trunks were out of place: they had to swim in the nude like everybody else.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nudity in sport."
Synonyms: NudeSynonyms: au naturel(p) (adj), bare (adj), naked (adj), nude painting (n), nude person (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Divestment | Adjective: divested; Verb: bare, naked, nude; undressed, undraped; denuded; exposed; in dishabille; bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless. |
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Crosswords: Nude |
| English words defined with "nude": au naturel ♦ bare ♦ Gaston Lachaise, grotesquely ♦ In a state of nature ♦ Lachaise ♦ monstrously ♦ naked, Naked wood, Nudification ♦ skinny dip. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nude": Adam and Eve, art photographs ♦ Back ♦ Campaspe ♦ Negro. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "nude": Nudibranchiata. (references) |
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Screenplays | Since he walked in on Del doing pushups in the nude. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) He thwarted your campaign for governor, you ran over his son, he saved the plant from meltdown, his wife painted you in the nude (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend (Old School; writing credit: Court Crandall; Todd Phillips) I'd like to talk to you tonight about the place of the nude in my bed um in the history of my bed of art, of art, I'm sorry (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman) I had a weekend scheduled of totally nude, no kids in the house, love making (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor) | |
Lyrics | I've seen you exposed your thoughts are nude (Feel So High; performing artist: Des'ree) | |
Movie/TV Titles | I Segreti della città più nude del mondo (1971) A Visit to a Nude Planet (1969) The Nude Restaurant (1967) Nude Scrapbook (1964) | |
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 | Pictured is a white nude mouse. The mouse is being held in the rubber-gloved hand of a technician. Nude mice, because of a genetic defect, have no thymus and cannot make certain cells essential for various immune responses. Because of this, they are extremely helpful to scientists working in Immunology Research. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Kaposi's sarcoma like lesion in athymic mouse - nude mouse. This lesion was induced by metabolically active cells 4x10(6) injected subcutaneously. Arrow indicated positive result. Left side was injected with fixed cells. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Skulptur Mit Funktion* : The Nude Hot Rubber. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Reclining nude. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Nude male. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Nude youth with bow and arrow, arms raised as if to shoot arrow into the air. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Thurmond, nude from waist down, and Holmes, nude, hanging from tree after being lynched, San Jose, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Nude female, possibly mythological subject. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Nude study. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Nude study for figure of Architecture, Libary of Congress1. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Nude 1" by Lily Rosen Commentary: "Studio photo." | "Abstract Nude 1" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "..." |
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A. C. Swinburne | We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique. |
Robert Bresson | In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene. |
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Human Rights | Jamaica | There were nine known vigilante killings during the year, compared with eight in 2000. For example, on August 30, the body of a nude man with multiple stab wounds was found tied to a telephone pole in the Papine area of Kingston. (references) |
Women | India | In June a Dalit women allegedly was paraded nude in a Karnataka village following a land dispute with a village landlord. (references) |
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Phyllis Diller | Oh, please. Shaggy thing. I've seen Halloween outfits that cost more. So they wanted to do it again, and I said let me set up one. So I was nude on a bear rug like babies. |
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| "Nude" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 89.71% of the time. "Nude" is used about 272 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 89.71% | 244 | 19,120 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.29% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Total | 100.00% | 272 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nude": in the nude ♦ nude bather ♦ nude dancing ♦ nude executor ♦ nude fact ♦ nude mouse ♦ nude painting ♦ nude person ♦ nude photo ♦ she works in nude show ♦ The nude. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "nude": nude-magazines. | |
Ending with "nude": half-nude. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
nude | 46,544 | demi moore nude | 2,624 |
nude celebrity | 10,489 | non nude | 2,520 |
nude beach | 10,169 | non nude teen | 2,480 |
nude pic | 9,812 | nude male | 2,303 |
nude picture free | 9,795 | asian nude | 2,196 |
nude woman | 9,685 | amateur nude | 2,102 |
nude teen | 8,040 | nude babe | 1,966 |
britney spears nude | 7,868 | wife nude | 1,937 |
nude celeb | 6,776 | divas nude wwe | 1,932 |
nude man | 5,272 | olsen twin nude | 1,834 |
model nude | 5,256 | nude in public | 1,819 |
nude photo | 4,792 | trish stratus nude | 1,725 |
free nude | 4,289 | nude africa | 1,553 |
nude photography | 3,967 | jennifer aniston nude | 1,534 |
nude art | 3,273 | halle berry nude | 1,503 |
christina aguilera nude | 3,204 | nude gallery | 1,486 |
carmen electra nude | 3,158 | catherine bell nude | 1,484 |
nude celeb free | 3,112 | free nude teen | 1,468 |
nude celebrity free | 3,095 | nude cheerleader | 1,453 |
jennifer lopez nude | 2,790 | lil kim nude | 1,444 |
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| Language | Translations for "nude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | trup lakuriq, pa pende, pa flokët, lakuriq (bare, in the state of nature, mother naked, naked, sky-clad, stark naked, uncovered), i zhveshur (bald, bare, bleak, defoliate, dry, leafless, naked, treeless, unclad, undressed), i pagjethe (leafless), i ngjyrës së trupit, gollomesh (bald, bare, naked). (various references) | |
Arabic | مكشوف (bared, cleavage, exposed, naked, open, roofless, uncovered, unguarded), ناقص (amiss, bid, defective, deficient, deprecatory, faulty, imperfect, inchoate, incomplete, incorrect, insufficient, minus, odd, reducible, revoked, scant, sketchy, truncate, unfinished, wanting), عار (bare, black eye, denuded, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, mortification, naked, obloquy, outrage, reflection, reflexion, reproach, scandal, shame, stark naked, starkers, taint, unclad, uncovered), عريانة, عريان, عري (bareness, nakedness, nudity, pubic), صورة زيتية عارية. (various references) | |
Basque | korapilo (naked). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | с телесен цвят (flesh-colored, flesh-coloured), голо тяло, гол (bald, bare, callow, goal, harsh, naked, raw, unfledged, ungloved), недействителен (inofficious, inoperative, invalid, null, null and void, shadowy, unreal, unverifiable, void). (various references) | |
Catalan | nu (bare, naked). (various references) | |
Chinese | 裸体人像. (various references) | |
Czech | nezávazný (not binding, tentative), nahý (bare, drawn, in the nude, naked, undressed), umìlecký akt, obnažený (bare, denudative, drawn, exposed, uncovered). (various references) | |
Danish | nøgen (bare, naked). (various references) | |
Dutch | onopgesmukt (bare, naked), onbedekt (bare, naked), naakt (bare, naked), bloot (bare, mere, naked, sole, solitary). (various references) | |
Esperanto | nudaĵo, nuda (bare, naked). (various references) | |
Faeroese | nakin (bare, naked). (various references) | |
Farsi | پوچ (Absurd, Airy, Empty, Hollow, Inane, Inoperative, Invalid, Nugatory, Sawdust, Unmeaning, Vacuous, Vain, Void), لخت (Bare, Lax, Naked, Picked, Stodgy), عریان (Bald, Bare, Naked, Unaadorned), بی اثر (Feckless, Inactive, Indfferent, Ineffective, Ineffectual, Nugatory), برهنه (Bald, Naked, Untented). (various references) | |
Finnish | alaston (bare, naked, uncovered, undressed). (various references) | |
French | nu (in the nude). (various references) | |
Frisian | neaken (bare, naked), bleat (bare, naked). (various references) | |
German | nackt (bare, blunt, buff, callow, naked, nakedly, nudely, plain, raw, stark), nackte (nakedly), akt (act, ceremony, certificate, diploma, document). (various references) | |
Greek | γυμνόσ (bare, bleak, naked, stripped, unclad). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ערום (bare, naked, stripped), ערטילאי (abstract, naked). (various references) | |
Hungarian | meztelen (bare, have nothing on, naked, scuddy, skinless, unclad), csupasz (bald, bare, naked, pure, smooth), akt (act, nudity), testszínű, sárgásvörös (Aurora, carroty), ruhátlan (unclad), meztelenség (bareness, nakedness, nudity), meztelen alak (nudity), egyoldalú (one sided, one track, one-eyed, one-sided, unilateral), öltözetlenség. (various references) | |
Indonesian | telanjang (bare, naked, undress), orang telanjang. (various references) | |
Italian | nudo (bare, naked, plain, stripped). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 全裸 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぜんら, ヌード (board), まるはだか (utterly stark naked, wearing only one's birthday suit), らたいが, はだか (bare, naked). (various references) | |
Korean | 누드. (various references) | |
Lombard | biòtt (bare, naked). (various references) | |
Manx | rooisht (clean out, exposed, naked, stripped, unclothed), lhome (arid, bald, bare, fleshless, leafless, meagre, naked, neat, scraggy, severe, spare). (various references) | |
Occitan | nus (naked), parat (naked). (various references) | |
Papiamen | sunú (bare, naked). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | udenay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | nu (bare, naked, nudity, sky-clad, unclad). (various references) | |
Romanian | nud (dry, naked, stripped, unclothed), gol (abyss, bald, bare, bare-bodied, barren, blank, blankness, desert, deserted, empty, gap, genuine, hollow, hollowness, inanity, leafless, naked, nakedly, out at, shallow, stripped, uncovered, vacancy, vacuum, void, waste, windy), dezgoli (bare, denude, divest, Harry, naked, rip, strip, uncover), dezbråca (bare, naked), despuiat (bare, naked), de culoarea pielii (flesh-colored, flesh-coloured). (various references) | |
Russian | телесного цвета (flesh-colored, flesh-coloured), голый (bald, bare, desert, in the nude, naked, stark fact, unclad), обнаженный обнаженный, обнаженный (bare, drawn, exposed, naked), обнаженная фигура (nudity), недействительный (ineffective, inefficacious, inept, invalid, non-effective, null, unavailable, void), нагой (naked, sky-clad), лишенный волос. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nagost (bareness, nakedness, nudity, undress), nag (bare, naked, nude: in the nude, unclothed, undressed), golotinja (bareness, nakedness), golo telo, go (bare, naked, outright, starknaked, stitch, unclothed, undressed), akt (academy-figure, file). (various references) | |
Spanish | desnudo (bald, bare, in the nude, naked, nudity, unclad, undress). (various references) | |
Sranan | soso-skin (bare, naked), sososkin (bare, naked). (various references) | |
Swedish | naken (bare, denuded, in the nude, naked, stark, starkers, unclothed). (various references) | |
Tagalog | hubád (bare, naked). (various references) | |
Thai | เปลือยกาย (naked), คนเปลือยกาย. (various references) | |
Turkish | nü, ten rengi (buff, color, colour, complexion, flesh-color, flesh-colored, flesh-colour, flesh-coloured), hükümsüz (inoperative, invalid, nugatory, null, statute-barred, void), geçersiz (defunct, full of holes, ineffective, inefficacious, inoperative, invalid, no-account, non-effective, null, off, out of use, paper, unsound, void), çíplak (bare, naked), çıplaklık (baldness, bareness, bleakness, nakedness, nudity), çıplak resmi, çıplak insan vücudu, çıplak (bare, bleak, innocent of clothes, naked, unaided, unclad, uncovered, undressed, unvarnished). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ясний (articulate, categorical, clean-cut, clear, cloudless, coherent, definite, determinate, distinct, elegant, explicative, explicatory, fine, limpid, lucid, neat, obvious, orotund, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, robust, trenchant), тілесного кольору, голий (bald, bare, bleak, callow, desert, naked, stark), голизна (nakedness, nudity), відвертий (above board, candid, direct, expansive, forthright, free-hearted, open, outgiving, outright, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, professed, self-confessed, unreserved, upstanding), оголеність (baldness, nakedness, nudity), оголене тіло, оголена постать (nudity), оголений (bald, bare, doddered, exposed, glabrous, naked), неприхований (bald, bald-faced, barefaced, naked), недійсний (inofficious, invalid, lapsed, non-effective, non-negotiable, nugatory, null, null and void, unavailable), недвозначний (categorical, unequivocal, watertight), нагота (bareness, nakedness, nudity, undress), панчохи тілесного кольору, панчохи павутинка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vô giá trị (bum, gewgaw, nugatory, rotten, scrubby, stramineous, straw, trashy, two-bit, waste), trần truồng (bare, naked, sky-clad, unclothed), trần (bare, naked), tình trạng khoả thân (nudeness). (various references) | |
Welsh | noethlymun (stark-naked). (various references) | |
Yucatec | xma' nook' (bare, naked). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nuda, nudam, nudi, nudis, nudo, nudos, nudum, nudus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nude": nudely, nudeness, nudenesses, nuder, nudes, nudest. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "nude": denude, seminude. (additional references) | |
Words containing "nude": denuded, denudement, denudements, denuder, denuders, denudes. (additional references) | |
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"Nude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gnode, Gnudi, gude, kude, nadab, nade, nadel, Naden, nadi, nadie, naide, Naud, Nauder, Naudi, ndd, nde, N'dea, Ndeh, nder, Ndev, ndue, Ndume, Neda, Nede, Nedem, Nedev, nedi, newed, Nguti, nidda, Niddk, nied, Nigde, niue, nlde, nndy, nnode, noday, noden, noder, nodey, nodi, nodo, nody, noed, noid, nordex, Nsue, Ntda, Nuada, nube, nuce, nud, Nuda, Nuddea, nuded, Nudel, nuder, nudey, nudez, nudo, nudy, nue, nueb, nuge, nugee, nuide, nule, nume, nund, nune, nupe, Nupen, nuqe, Nurden, Nure, Nureg, nuse, nuta, Nute, nuti, nuve, Nuwe, nuxe, nuze, nyundo, Oude, snude, ude, unda, Undc, undee, unden, undi, unds, undy, xude. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nude" (pronounced nuw"d) |
| 3 | n uw" d | canoed, denude, renewed. |
| 2 | -uw" d | accrued, allude, booed, brewed, brood, chewed, clued, collude, conclude, construed, crude, cued, debuted, delude, intrude, lewd, dude, elude, endued, ensued, eschewed, exclude, extrude, exude, feud, food, glued, gude, hued, imbued, include, misconstrued, mood, nonfood, obtrude, poohed, preclude, protrude, prude, pursued, reviewed, rood, rude, screwed, seclude, shampooed, shooed, shrewd, skewed, spewed, stewed, subdued, sued, tattooed, unglued, viewed, wooed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dune, unde. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-u" | |
-1 letter: den, due, dun, end. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, en, ne, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-u" | |
+1 letter: dunce, dunes, endue, indue, nuder, nudes, nudge, nudie, nuked, tuned, undee, under, undue, unfed, unled, unwed, upend. | |
+2 letters: augend, beduin, bundle, bunged, bunked, bunted, burden, burned, debunk, defund, dengue, denude, dudeen, duende, duenna, dunces, dunged, dunite, dunked, dunker, dunned, dunner, dunted, durned, endued, endues, endure, enduro, ensued, enured, fecund, fondue, funded, funked, funned, gerund, gulden, gunned, hunted, induce, indued, indues, inured, junked, louden, lunged, lunted, nodule, nudely, nudest, nudged, nudger, nudges, nudies, nulled, numbed, nurled, nursed, nutted, pruned, punned, punted, refund, ruined, rundle, secund, sendup, sudden, sundae, sunder, sundew, sunned, tunned, turned, unaged, unawed, unbend, unbred, undead, undies, undine, undoer, undoes, undone, undrew, undyed, united, unkend, unlade, unlead, unmade, unread, unshed, untied, unused, upends, upsend, vendue. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
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