Nude meaning

no͝od, nyo͝od
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The definition of nude is someone without any clothes on.

An example of nude is a naked person in the hot tub.

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Having no clothing; naked.
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An unclothed human figure, especially an artistic representation.
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Permitting or featuring full exposure of the body.

A nude beach.

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A nude person.
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(absolute use, with article: the nude) The state of total nudity.
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The condition of being unclothed.
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Completely unclothed or uncovered; naked; bare.
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Without consideration or other legal essential.
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A representation of a nude human figure in painting, sculpture, etc.
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The condition of being nude; nakedness.

In the nude.

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Any of a range of colors from tan to yellowish or pinkish beige.
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Without clothing or other covering of the skin; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples.

Why do you act so prudish whenever you see nude people?

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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.

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Of a beige or tan color, evoking bare skin.
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Origin of nude

  • Latin nūdus nogw- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Entered English 1531 as a legal term "unsupported, not formally attested," , from Latin nÅ«dus 'naked, bare'.

    From Wiktionary

Nude Sentence Examples

  • He now became a nude and beardless youth, the type of the young athlete.

  • There is a sheet at the Louvre of much earlier date than the first idea or commission for this particular picture, containing some nude sketches for the arrangement of the subject; another later and farther advanced, but still probably anterior to the practical commission, at Venice, and a MS. sheet of great interest at the Victoria and Albert Museum, on which the painter has noted in writing the dramatic motives appropriate to the several disciples.

  • In most districts both sexes are entirely nude.

  • It is reasonable, therefore, to conclude that ornament is a stimulus to sexual selection, and this conclusion is enforced by the fact that among many comparatively nude peoples clothing is assumed at certain dances which have as their confessed object the excitation of the passions of the opposite sex.

  • Looking at the question then from the point of view of sexual selection it would seem that a stage in the progress of human society is marked by the discovery that concealment affords a greater stimulus than revelation; that the fact is true is obvious, - even to modern eyes a figure partially clad appears far more indecent than a nude.

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