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nude person

nude person

1 3.8
A person who is not wearing any clothes
  • noun
  • /nuːd ˈpɜːrsən/
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translation icon : persona desnuda

Examples

  • "We've always had our nude people, one or two," resident Dennis Richards told me.

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  • While I don't care to see nude people in public, as long as they are not physically harming anyone (nor breaking the dress codes private businesses have for their customers), I support their right to go nude.

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  • At the art class, students were asked to paint a portrait of a nude person as part of their assignment.

  • During the festival, many people felt comfortable walking around as a nude person without any clothes.

  • The museum featured a sculpture of a nude person that celebrated the beauty of the human body.

Synonyms

nude
vsnude person
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53 4.9

A person without clothes or a painting that shows that person

is the neutral term for someone without clothing, not focused on art
nudie
vsnude person
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1 9.8

A person who is not wearing any clothes

is the neutral, standard term rather than informal slang

Antonyms

1 1.0

Wearing clothes to cover the body

How Nude

nude person
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half-clothed
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clothed
1 1.0

Surface Forms

nude person singular
nude persons plural
nude people plural

Morphology

nude + person

The meaning 'a person who is not wearing any clothes' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'nude' (unclothed) with 'person' (human individual). This is a simple adjective + noun composition following regular English and cross-linguistically common patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.

Etymology

Nude person comes from the adjective nude, which comes from a Latin word meaning 'bare' or 'naked', and the word person meaning someone. The phrase paints a simple image of someone with no clothes, so it means 'a person who is not wearing any clothes'.