nude

English

Etymology

Entered English 1531 as a legal term "unsupported, not formally attested," , from Latin nūdus 'naked, bare'.

Pronunciation

• enPR: n(y)o͞od, IPA: /n(j)uːd/, X-SAMPA: /n(j)u:d/
• Rhymes: -uːd

Adjective

nude (comparative nuder, superlative nudest)

1. Without clothing or other covering of the skin; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples.
2. Of a beige or tan color, evoking bare skin.

Synonyms

• au naturel
• bare
• carnation (skin-color)
• exposed
• naked
• unclothed
• undressed
• in the buff
• See also Wikisaurus:nude

Derived terms

• nudie

Related terms

• denude
• nudism
• nudist
• nudity

Translations

without clothing or other covering

• Albanian: lakuriq (sq)
• Arabic: عارٍ (ar) (ʕārin)
• Armenian: մերկ (hy) (merk), տկլոր (hy) (tklor)
• Azeri: çılpaq (az)
• Belarusian: голы (be) (goly)
• Bulgarian: гол (bg) (gol)
• Catalan: nu (ca)
• Chamicuro: kolochoshko
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 赤裸 (cmn) (chìluǒ), 裸 (cmn) (luǒ)

• Czech: nahý (cs)
• Dalmatian: noid
• Danish: nøgen (da)
• Dutch: bloot (nl), naakt (nl)
• Estonian: alasti (et), paljas (et)
• Finnish: alaston (fi), paljas (fi)
• French: nu (fr) m
• Friulian: nûd
• Galician: nu (gl) m
• Georgian: შიშველი (ka) (šišveli)
• German: nackt (de)
• Greek: γυμνός (el) (gymnós) m
• Hebrew: ערום (he)
• Hungarian: meztelen (hu), csupasz (hu), ruhátlan (hu), pucér (hu)
• Indonesian: telanjang (id)
• Italian: nudo (it)
• Japanese: 裸の (ja) (はだかの, hadaka-no)
• Korean: 나체의 (ko) (na.ce.wi), 벌거벗은 (ko) (bŏl.gŏ.bŏs.ŭn)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ڕوت (ku) (rrut)

• Latin: nudus (la)
• Latvian: kails (lv), pliks (lv)
• Lithuanian: nuogas (lt)
• Manx: lhome (gv)
• Mongolian: (nücgên) нүцгэн (mn) (nütsgen)
• Norwegian: naken (no)
• Occitan: desnut (oc)
• Old English: nacod (ang)
• Pashto: بربنډ (ps) (barbanḍ), لوڅ (ps) (luś)
• Persian: برهنه (fa)
• Polish: nagi (pl) m
• Portuguese: nu (pt)
• Romanian: nud (ro), nudă (ro) f, gol (ro) m and n
• Russian: голый (ru) (gólyj), нагой (ru) (nagój), обнажённый (ru) (obnažónnyj)
• Sardinian: nu (sc), nuu (sc), nuo (sc), nudu (sc), nutu (sc)
• Scottish Gaelic: lom (gd), rùisgte (gd), lomnochd (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: go (sh), nag (sh), gol (sh)
• Slovak: nahý (sk)
• Slovene: gòl (sl), nág (sl)
• Spanish: desnudo (es)
• Tagalog: hubad (tl)
• Tajik: бараҳна (tg) (barahna)
• Thai: (bpleuay) เปลือย (th)
• Turkish: çıplak (tr)
• Ukrainian: голий (uk) (holyj)
• Volapük: nüdik (vo)

of color of bare skin

• Dutch: vleeskleurig (nl)
• Finnish: ihonvärinen (fi)

• Russian: телесный (ru) (telesnyj), телесного цвета (ru) (telesnogo cveta)

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• Amuzgo: kísí

• Hungarian: meztelen (hu), csupasz (hu), ruhátlan (hu), pucér (hu), egyoldalú (hu), meztelenség (hu), öltözetlenség (hu)
• Isthmus Zapotec: xie gule

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Noun

nude (plural nudes)

1. A painting, other artwork or mass-media-reproduced image depicting (a) human figure(s) in a state of near or total undress.

   The marketing rule 'nude sells' spread from verbal to visual mainstream media in the 20th century

2. (absolute use, with article: the nude) The state of total nudity

Synonyms

• (the nude) birthday suit

Translations

image depicting a human in a state of undress

• Dutch: naakt (nl) n
• Finnish: alastonkuva (fi)
• French: nu (fr) m
• Georgian: გაშიშვლებული ფიგურა (ka) (gašišvlebuli p‘igura)
• Greek: γυμνό (el) (gymnó) n
• Hungarian: akt (hu)

• Italian: nudo (it) m
• Japanese: (nūdo) ヌード (ja)
• Latvian: akts (lv) m
• Polish: akt (pl) m
• Turkish: nüd (tr)

state of total nudity

• Dutch: adamskostuum (nl) m, blootje (nl) n, flikker (nl) m
• Hungarian: meztelenség (hu), csupaszság (hu)

• Turkish: çıplaklık (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• German Nacken (de)

See also

• naturism
• skinny dipping

Anagrams

• dune

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Italian

Adjective

nude f

1. Feminine plural form of nudo

Anagrams

• dune

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Latin

Adjective

nūde

1. vocative masculine singular of nūdus

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈnu.de]

Adjective

nude

1. Feminine plural form of nud
2. Neuter plural form of nud