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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The buttocks.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The buttocks; the haunches; the gluteal region of the body; in man, the seat.
  2. 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.
  3. n. The umbones of a bivalve shell.

Wiktionary

  1. n. the buttocks
  2. n. The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
  3. n. zoology The umbones of a bivalve shell.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The buttocks.
  2. n. The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
  3. n. (Zoöl.) The umbones of a bivalve shell.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

Etymologies

  1. Latin nates (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin natēs, pl. of natis, buttock. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • 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

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