# topless
## English
### Etymology

From top +‎ -less.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### 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?
* (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 (lyrics and music), “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

* topless dress
* toplessly
* toplessness
* topless radio

#### Translations

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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
### Noun

topless (plural toplesses)
* (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: /ˈtɔp.ləs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: top‧less

### Adjective

topless (not comparable)
* topless (lacking clothes on the upper part of the body)

#### Declension
## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English topless.

### Noun

topless m (invariable)
* the state of being topless
* a monokini or similar

#### Derived terms

* in topless

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* toples

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English topless.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɔ.plɛs/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔplɛs
* Syllabification: top‧less
* Homophone: toples

### 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
* topless monokini
    Synonym: monokini

#### Declension
### Further reading

* topless in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English topless.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /tɔ.piˈlɛ(j)s/ [tɔ.piˈlɛ(ɪ̯)s], /tɔ.piˈlɛ.si/
* (Brazil) IPA: /tɔ.piˈlɛ(j)s/ [tɔ.piˈlɛ(ɪ̯)s], /tɔ.piˈlɛ.si/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /tɔ.piˈlɛ(j)ʃ/ [tɔ.piˈlɛ(ɪ̯)ʃ], /tɔ.piˈlɛ.si/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /tɔ.piˈlɛ(j)s/ [tɔ.piˈlɛ(ɪ̯)s], /tɔ.piˈlɛ.se/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɔˈplɛ.sɨ/

### Adjective

topless (invariable)
* (of a woman) topless (naked from the waist up)
    Fazer topless. ― To go topless.

#### Related terms

* top

### 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)
* topless

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* toples

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English topless.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtoples/ [ˈt̪o.ples]
* Rhymes: -oples

### 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.