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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NUDE, a.
1. Bare.
2. In law, void; of no force.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model" [syn: bare, au naturel, naked, nude] n
1: a painting of a naked human figure [syn: nude, nude painting]
2: without clothing (especially in the phrase `in the nude'); "they swam in the nude"
3: a naked person [syn: nude, nude person]
4: a statue of a naked human figure [syn: nude, nude sculpture, nude statue]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective (nuder; nudest) Etymology: Latin nudus naked — more at naked Date: 1531 1. lacking something essential especially to legal validity <a nude contract> 2. a. devoid of a natural or conventional covering; especially not covered by clothing or a drape b. (1) of the color of a white person's flesh (2) giving the appearance of nudity <a nude dress> c. featuring nudes <a nude movie> d. frequented by naked people <a nude beach> Synonyms: see bare • nude adverb • nudely adverb • nudeness noun • nudity noun II. noun Date: 1708 1. a. a representation of a nude human figure b. a nude person 2. the condition of being nude <in the nude>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. naked, bare, unclothed. --n. 1 a painting, sculpture, photograph, etc. of a nude human figure; such a figure. 2 a nude person. 3 (prec. by the) a an unclothed state. b the representation of an undraped human figure as a genre in art. Phrases and idioms: nude contract Law = bare contract. Etymology: L nudus

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nude Nude, a. [L. nudus. See Naked.] 1. Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue. 2. (Law) Naked; without consideration; void; as, a nude contract. See Nudum pactum. --Blackstone. The nude, the undraped human figure in art. -- Nude"ly, adv.- Nude"ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(nudes) 1. A nude person is not wearing any clothes. The occasional nude bather comes here... She turned down £1.2 million to pose nude in Playboy... ADJ: ADJ n, ADJ after v, v-link ADJ • If you do something in the nude, you are not wearing any clothes. If you paint or draw someone in the nude, they are not wearing any clothes. Sleeping in the nude, if it suits you, is not a bad idea... = naked PHRASE: usu PHR after v 2. A nude is a picture or statue of a person who is not wearing any clothes. A nude is also a person in a picture who is not wearing any clothes. He was one of Australia's most distinguished artists, renowned for his portraits, landscapes and nudes. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Bare, uncovered, undressed, unclothed, naked, exposed, denuded, stark naked, in a state of nature, in puris naturalibus.

Moby Thesaurus

art object, au naturel, bald, bare, bare-ass, bareness, birthday suit, blank, brainchild, bric-a-brac, classic, composition, creation, decollete, design, dishabille, ecdysiast, garmentless, grotesque, gymnosophical, gymnosophist, gymnosophy, in, in native buff, in puris naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, kitsch, master, masterpiece, masterwork, mobile, mother-naked, museum piece, naked, nakedness, naturism, naturist, naturistic, not a stitch, nudism, nudist, nudity, old master, pasticcio, pastiche, peeled, piece, piece of virtu, raw, stabile, stark, stark-naked, state of nature, statue, still life, stripped, stripper, stripteaser, study, the altogether, the nude, the raw, toplessness, unadorned, unadulterated, unarrayed, unattired, unclad, unclothed, uncomplicated, uncovered, undecked, undecorated, undraped, undressed, unembellished, unfurbished, ungarnished, unornamented, unrobed, unsophisticated, untrimmed, unvarnished, virtu, with nothing on, without a stitch, work, work of art