topless
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a topless woman on a beach
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
topless (not comparable)
- Lacking a top.
- The sight-seeing bus is topless to allow tourists a better view of the sights.
- (poetic) Very high; towering.
- late 16th century Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus:
- Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
- And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
- late 16th century Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus:
- (chiefly of a woman) Not wearing a garment covering the top half of the body; naked from the waist up.
- Synonyms: (of a woman) bare-breasted, (of a man) barechested, half-naked, semi-nude, shirtless, topfree
- The council voted to allow topless swimmers on the beach.
- (of a place) Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers.
- 1971, “L.A. Woman”, in Jim Morrison (lyrics), L.A. Woman, performed by The Doors:
- Driving down your freeways / Midnight alleys roam / Cops in cars, the topless bars / Never saw a woman so alone
- 1975, Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”, in Blood on the Tracks:
- She was workin' in a topless place / And I stopped in for beer / I just kept lookin' at the side of her face / In the spotlight so clear.
- Only her closest friends knew that Jenny was working at a topless bar to help with college expenses.
Derived terms
Translations
lacking a top
poetic: very high, towering
naked from the waist up
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featuring women that are naked from the waist up
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Adverb
topless (not comparable)
- Not wearing any clothes on the upper body.
- 1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 43:
- 'I saw her,' said Neptune, 'sunbaking topless.'
- 2019 September 19, Pete Williams, “Topless women win big as Colorado city drops ban”, in NBC News:
- Fort Collins, Colorado has decided it's not worth the money to fight for its ordinance banning women from appearing topless in public.
Translations
not wearing any clothes on the upper body
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Noun
topless (plural toplesses)
- (automotive) A convertible car having the top retracted or otherwise open.
See also
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English topless.
Pronunciation
Adjective
topless (not comparable)
- topless (lacking clothes on the upper part of the body)
Declension
| Declension of topless | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | topless | |||
| inflected | topless | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | topless | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | topless | ||
| n. sing. | topless | |||
| plural | topless | |||
| definite | topless | |||
| partitive | topless | |||
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English topless.
Noun
topless m (invariable)
- the state of being topless
- a monokini or similar
Derived terms
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English topless.
Pronunciation
Adjective
topless (not comparable, no derived adverb)
- topless (naked from the waist up)
Adverb
topless (not comparable)
- topless (not wearing any clothes on the upper body)
Noun
topless m inan (indeclinable) or topless m inan
Declension
Declension of topless
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | topless | toplessy |
| genitive | toplessu | toplessów |
| dative | toplessowi | toplessom |
| accusative | topless | toplessy |
| instrumental | toplessem | toplessami |
| locative | toplessie | toplessach |
| vocative | toplessie | toplessy |
Further reading
- topless in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English topless.
Pronunciation
Adjective
topless (invariable)
- (of a woman) topless (naked from the waist up)
- Fazer topless. ― To go topless.
Related terms
Further reading
- “topless”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
- “topless”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English topless.
Adjective
topless m or f or n (indeclinable)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | topless | topless | topless | topless | |||
| definite | — | — | — | — | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | topless | topless | topless | topless | |||
| definite | — | — | — | — | ||||
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English topless.
Pronunciation
Adjective
topless (invariable)
- topless (of a woman, naked from the waist up)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.