topless

English Online Dictionary. What means topless‎? What does topless mean?

English

Etymology

From top +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

Adjective

topless (not comparable)

1. Lacking a top.

2. (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?

3. (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

4. (of a place) Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers.

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

topless (not comparable)

1. Not wearing any clothes on the upper body.

Translations

Noun

topless (plural toplesses)

1. (automotive) A convertible car having the top retracted or otherwise open.

See also

• bottomless
• monokini
• toplessness

Anagrams

• Postels, potless

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English topless.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔp.ləs/
• Hyphenation: top‧less

Adjective

topless (not comparable)

1. topless (lacking clothes on the upper part of the body)

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English topless.

Noun

topless m (invariable)

1. the state of being topless
2. a monokini or similar

Derived terms

• in topless

Polish

Alternative forms

• toples

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English topless.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.plɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɔplɛs
• Syllabification: top‧less
• Homophone: toples

Adjective

topless (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. topless (naked from the waist up)

Adverb

topless (not comparable)

1. topless (not wearing any clothes on the upper body)

Noun

topless m inan (indeclinable) or topless m inan

1. topless monokini

   Synonym: monokini

Declension

Further reading

• topless in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English topless.

Pronunciation

Adjective

topless (invariable)

1. (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)

1. topless

Declension

Spanish

Alternative forms

• toples

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English topless.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoples/ [ˈt̪o.ples]
• Rhymes: -oples

Adjective

topless (invariable)

1. 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.