Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The buttocks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The buttocks; the haunches; the gluteal region of the body; in man, the seat.
- noun The larger, anterior pair of prominonces of the corpora quadrigemina or optic lobes of the brain in man and other mammals, the smaller, posterior pair being called the testes. See
corpora quadrigemina , under corpus. - noun The umbones of a bivalve shell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural The buttocks.
- noun plural The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) The umbones of a bivalve shell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
buttocks - noun The two
anterior of the fourlobes on thedorsal side of themidbrain of mostmammals ; the anterior optic lobes. - noun zoology The
umbones of abivalve shell .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Etymologies
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Examples
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From this point of view the nates are a symbol of contempt, and any sexual significance is excluded.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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Next day he interviewed his two subordi - nates, Manders and Reilly, reckless youngsters who were as elated as if it were a deer-hunt.
Chennai 2010
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Morisons statement read: I found several superficial bruises on different parts of her body, and redness and tendency to excoriation about the nates, none of them at all connected with the cause of her death, which was occasioned by General Paralysis.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Morisons statement read: I found several superficial bruises on different parts of her body, and redness and tendency to excoriation about the nates, none of them at all connected with the cause of her death, which was occasioned by General Paralysis.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Depilatus, divellere pilos, glaber, laevis and nates pervellere are allusions to the Sotadic toilette.
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Morisons statement read: I found several superficial bruises on different parts of her body, and redness and tendency to excoriation about the nates, none of them at all connected with the cause of her death, which was occasioned by General Paralysis.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Pygisma = buttockry, because most actives end within the nates, being too much excited for further intromission.
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Fistulae are produced by contusions and tubercles, and they are also occasioned by rowing, on horseback, when blood accumulates in the nates near the anus.
On Fistulae 2007
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Jampridem et plagas ipsi in nates incussi sandalio.
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On the sixth day, was free of fever, did not sweat, had a crisis; the complaint about the nates came to a small suppuration, and burst at the crisis.
Of The Epidemics 2007
reesetee commented on the word nates
The buttocks. Yes, that's what it means.
February 23, 2007
johnmperry commented on the word nates
pronounced /'neiti:z/
June 18, 2008
rolig commented on the word nates
Very cool. I might just start saying "nice nates!" – when appropriate, of course. Though I really want to prounce this word "naits" (to rhyme with "gates"), or to pronounce it "correctly" but spell it "naties"!
June 18, 2008