Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having no clothing; naked.
  • adjective Permitting or featuring full exposure of the body.
  • noun An unclothed human figure, especially an artistic representation.
  • noun The condition of being unclothed.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Naked; bare; uncovered; specifically, in art, undraped; not covered with drapery: as, a nude statue.
  • In law, naked; made without consideration: said of contracts and agreements in which a consideration is wholly lacking.
  • In botany and zoöl.:
  • Bare; destitute of leaves, hairs, bristles, feathers, scales, or other exterior outgrowth or covering.
  • Not supported by diagnosis or description; mere; bare: said of generic or specific terms, in the phrase nude name, translating the technical designation nomen nudum. See nomen.
  • Synonyms See list under naked.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped.
  • adjective (Law) Naked; without consideration; void. See Nudum pactum.
  • adjective the undraped human figure in art.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Without clothing or other covering of the skin; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples.
  • adjective Of a beige or tan color, evoking bare skin.
  • noun A painting, other artwork or mass-media-reproduced image depicting (a) human figure(s) in a state of near or total undress.
  • noun The state of total nudity

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a painting of a naked human figure
  • noun a naked person
  • adjective completely unclothed
  • noun a statue of a naked human figure
  • noun without clothing (especially in the phrase `in the nude')

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin nūdus; see nogw- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

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Examples

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  • These days in modern photography, we're still compelled by the nude body, but more often than not, the female rather than the male nude is the subject de rigeur.

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  • I dearly hope you've got swim shorts on, because the idea that you're reading my book reviews in the nude is more than my feeble mind can process.

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  • Midway through it, Mr. Domingo slipped Ms. Gallardo-Dom â s's negligee straps from her shoulders, leaving her nude from the waist up.

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  • These days in modern photography, we're still compelled by the nude body, but more often than not, the female rather than the male nude is the subject de rigeur.

    Jill Di Donato: Dudes Who Shoot Nudes Jill Di Donato 2010

  • These days in modern photography, we're still compelled by the nude body, but more often than not, the female rather than the male nude is the subject de rigeur.

    Jill Di Donato: Dudes Who Shoot Nudes Jill Di Donato 2010

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