nates

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
6
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈneɪtiːz/(UK)

Definition of nates

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (plural, plural-only)The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
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noun

  1. (plural, plural-only)The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
  2. (plural, plural-only)The buttocks.
    “Enderby watched her warily as she lay prone, having kicked the clothes off the bed, her nates silvered by the Roman moonlight to the likeness of a meringue.”
    “He sat cross-legged on a damask pillow and scrutinized the pale puckered nates with the air of an epicure examining a fly in his vichyssoise.”
  3. (plural, plural-only)The umbones of a bivalve shell.

name

  1. (form-of, plural)plural of Nate

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Etymology

From Latin natēs, plural of natis.

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