See topless in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "late 16th century Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus",
"roman": "And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?",
"text": "Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,"
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"(poetic) Very high; towering."
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"word": "korkeana siintävä"
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"word": "égbe nyúló"
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"text": "The council voted to allow topless swimmers on the beach.",
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"(chiefly of a woman) Not wearing a garment covering the top half of the body; naked from the waist up."
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"roman": "gol do krǎsta",
"sense": "naked from the waist up",
"word": "гол до кръста"
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"roman": "wú shàngzhuāng",
"sense": "naked from the waist up",
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"word": "berbróstað"
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"sense": "naked from the waist up",
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "naked from the waist up",
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"sense": "naked from the waist up",
"word": "barbusig"
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"sense": "naked from the waist up",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "naked from the waist up",
"word": "oben ohne"
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"_dis1": "0 0 66 34",
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"sense": "naked from the waist up",
"word": "busenfrei"
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"roman": "gymnóstithos",
"sense": "naked from the waist up",
"word": "γυμνόστηθος"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "naked from the waist up",
"word": "félmeztelen"
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"sense": "naked from the waist up",
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "naked from the waist up",
"word": "topplaus"
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"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "naked from the waist up",
"word": "berbrjósta"
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"_dis1": "0 0 66 34",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "topuresu",
"sense": "naked from the waist up",
"word": "トップレス"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "naked from the waist up",
"word": "toppløs"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "naked from the waist up",
"word": "toples"
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"sense": "naked from the waist up",
"word": "topless"
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"code": "ru",
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"note": "of women",
"roman": "s obnažónnoj grúdʹju",
"sense": "naked from the waist up",
"word": "с обнажённой гру́дью"
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"word": "a spaḍḍa nuda"
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"word": "hore bez"
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"sense": "naked from the waist up",
"word": "üstsüz"
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"ref": "1971, “L.A. Woman”, in Jim Morrison (lyrics), L.A. Woman, performed by The Doors:",
"text": "Driving down your freeways / Midnight alleys roam / Cops in cars, the topless bars / Never saw a woman so alone",
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"ref": "1975, Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”, in Blood on the Tracks:",
"text": "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.",
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"text": "Only her closest friends knew that Jenny was working at a topless bar to help with college expenses.",
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"(of a place) Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers."
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"word": "ū tautau"
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"ref": "1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 43:",
"text": "'I saw her,' said Neptune, 'sunbaking topless.'",
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"ref": "2019 September 19, Pete Williams, “Topless women win big as Colorado city drops ban”, in NBC News:",
"text": "Fort Collins, Colorado has decided it's not worth the money to fight for its ordinance banning women from appearing topless in public.",
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{
"word": "toplessness"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Automotive"
],
"glosses": [
"A convertible car having the top retracted or otherwise open."
],
"links": [
[
"automotive",
"automotive"
],
[
"convertible",
"convertible"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(automotive) A convertible car having the top retracted or otherwise open."
],
"topics": [
"automotive",
"transport",
"vehicles"
]
}
],
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/En-us-topless.ogg"
}
],
"word": "topless"
}
Download raw JSONL data for topless meaning in English (16.3kB)
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"called_from": "translations/609-20230504",
"msg": "Translation too long compared to word, so it is skipped",
"path": [
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],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "topless",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "translations/324",
"msg": "possible sense number in translation item: Swedish: topless (2), topless- (3), öppen (4)",
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