Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The buttocks.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The buttocks; the haunches; the gluteal region of the body; in man, the seat.
- n. 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.
- n. The umbones of a bivalve shell.
Wiktionary
- n. the buttocks
- n. The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
- n. zoology The umbones of a bivalve shell.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The buttocks.
- n. The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
- n. (Zoöl.) The umbones of a bivalve shell.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Etymologies
- Latin nates (Wiktionary)
- Latin natēs, pl. of natis, buttock. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“From this point of view the nates are a symbol of contempt, and any sexual significance is excluded.”
“Next day he interviewed his two subordi - nates, Manders and Reilly, reckless youngsters who were as elated as if it were a deer-hunt.”
“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.”
“Depilatus, divellere pilos, glaber, laevis and nates pervellere are allusions to the Sotadic toilette.”
“Pygisma = buttockry, because most actives end within the nates, being too much excited for further intromission.”
“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.”
“Jampridem et plagas ipsi in nates incussi sandalio.”
“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.”
“In the beginning of the fever, had a pain about the nates.”
“But it appears to me, that a canal which embraces the limb from the nates to the foot is of use.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nates’.
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buttocks
words for buttocks and anything
to do with buttockssteatopygia, callipygous, callipygian, tuchis, tot, stern, seat, rear, rump, keisterrump, fundament, fanny and 160 more...
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phrontistery - n
from phrontistery.info
nymphology, nympholepsy, nyctophobia, nymphean, nyctograph, nyctanthous, nyctalopia, nychthemeral, nutricial, nutrice, nutrication, nychthemeron and 340 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
lurid, limned, concordance, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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amberella's Words
facetious, behoove, akrasia, schadenfreude, halcyon, vapid, wanderlust, bluestocking, drazel, succinct, literati, geason and 116 more...
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Lolita
Words compiled while reading Lolita
lolita, solecism, cognomen, etiolate, tendresse, expiatory, filch, paroxysm, arabesques, sibilant, manque, uranist and 181 more...
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Phrases and words I didn't know
give up the ghost, ninja'd, coal-hole, hotting up, chancer, clave, salaryman, turf accountant, cremains, autoclave, hummingbird mind, gank and 174 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 1991 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Anatomy
Words pertaining to the human body, its form, functions, and movements.
rump, axilla, nates, wick, dorsal, shank, coccyx, iliac, haunch, oculate, priapic, tumescent and 9 more...
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Gloriaha's Words
immute, wholly, inure, penchant, halcyon, fusty, smidgeon, ostension, array, amalgam, meliorate, bungle and 64 more...
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new to me
stridulation, sherd, lees, lacustrine, coir, eruct, dysgenic, labile, glozening, entrainment, grawlix, maledicta balloon and 20 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for nates.
rolig 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"! Jun 18, 2008
johnmperry pronounced /'neiti:z/ Jun 18, 2008
reesetee The buttocks. Yes, that's what it means. Feb 23, 2007