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Nameless

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not having a name. not-comparable

    "Environmental DNA analysis suggests that the number of species of bacteria that remain nameless to date may well be on the order of many thousands."

  2. 2
    Whose name is unknown; unidentified or obscured. not-comparable

    "The culprits shall remain nameless here, as some names have been changed to protect the guilty; just don't let it happen again."

  3. 3
    Unable to be described or expressed. not-comparable

    "a nameless unease"

  4. 4
    Illegitimate. dated, not-comparable

    "He said that he would cherish her until the grave, and that he would love her nameless son as though he were his own flesh."

Adjective
  1. 1
    being or having an unknown or unnamed source wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Vulva. obsolete

    "Hérison, m. The female pudendum; ‘the nameless’."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English nameles, equivalent to name + -less. Cognate with Dutch naamloos (“nameless”), German namenlos (“nameless”), Danish navnløs (“nameless”), Swedish namnlös (“nameless”), Icelandic nafnlaus (“nameless, anonymous”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English nameles, equivalent to name + -less. Cognate with Dutch naamloos (“nameless”), German namenlos (“nameless”), Danish navnløs (“nameless”), Swedish namnlös (“nameless”), Icelandic nafnlaus (“nameless, anonymous”).

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