nates
Americannoun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of nates
1675–85; < Latin natēs, plural of natis; generally used in the plural; akin to Greek nôton the back
Example Sentences
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One reason�perhaps the main reason�why Samaras has been such an upsetting presence in New York is that his privacy alter nates with moments of obsessive, and for some people embarrassing self-display.
From Time Magazine Archive
Orson Welles is both director and star of this amalgam of scenes from five of Shakespeare's history plays in which the Bard's "bombard" of a buffoon domi nates the stage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pygopagous twins are fetuses united together in the region of the nates and having each its own pelvis.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
Discolourations, answering to the ribs, were observed on the thorax; many small purple spots, hard and prominent, on the back; excoriations on the nates; and purple spots, resembling incipient mortification, on the heel and toe.
From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by Warren, John Collins
Natal, nā′tal, adj. pertaining to the nates or buttocks.—n.pl.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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