From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishin the nudein the nudeNAKEDnot wearing any clothesSYN nakedHe was standing there in the nude. →nudeExamples from the Corpusin the nude• It was rumored on campus that Williams, an acknowledged free spirit, once broadcastin the nude.• Butch Beausoleil could live here in the nude and no one would give her a second glance.• On seeing him in the nude, the girls' screams of fear turn into roars of laughter.• He told me he cleans his house in the nude!• There were no new clothes, really, so the emperor was paradingin the nude.• And, yeah, I want this whole scenein the nude, we're all nude, that's definite.• Why do they always perform the whole show in the nude?• The pictures show Collier on top of a New York skyscraperin the nude.• It was strange to make absolutestatementsin the nude.• He likes to swimin the nude.