nates
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 5
- Words With Friends
- 6
- Letters
- 5
/ˈneɪtiːz/(UK)
Definition of nates
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (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
- (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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(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.”
- (plural, plural-only)The umbones of a bivalve shell.
name
- (form-of, plural)plural of Nate
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Etymology
From Latin natēs, plural of natis.
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