nates

Other forms of nates

plural

nateses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nates

What does nates mean?

nates means "the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on".

How many syllables are in nates?

nates has 1 syllable: nates.

What is another word for nates?

Close synonyms include buttocks, arse, butt, backside, bum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nates a common word?

nates is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.