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bare·foot

(bâr′fo͝ot′) also bare·foot·ed (-fo͝ot′ĭd)

adv. & adj.

With nothing on the feet: walking barefoot in the grass; a barefoot boy.

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barefoot

(ˈbɛəˌfʊt) or

barefooted

adj, adv

with the feet uncovered

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

bare•foot

(bɛərˌfʊt)

also bare′foot`ed,

adj., adv.

with the feet bare: a barefoot boy; to walk barefoot.

[before 1000]

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Adj.	1.	barefoot - without shoes; "the barefoot boy"; "shoeless Joe Jackson" barefooted, shoeless unshoed, unshod - not shod
Adv.	1.	barefoot - without shoes on; "he chased her barefoot across the meadow" barefooted

Translations

حافي القَدَمَيـْنحافي القَدَميْن

bosýnaboso

barfodetmed bare fødder

barfuß barfüßig

ξυπόλητος ξυπόλυτος

descalzo

paljain jaloinpaljasjalkainen

nu-pieds pieds nus

bosbosih nogu

mezítláb

scalzo a piedi nudi

裸足で裸足の

맨발로맨발의

blootsvoets op blote voeten

bosbosih nog

barfota

เท้าเปล่า

çıplak ayak çıplak ayakla

chân trầnđi chân không

赤脚的赤着脚

barefoot

[ˈbɛəˈfʊt] barefooted [ˈbɛəˈfʊtɪd]

A. ADJ → descalzo

B. ADV → descalzo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

barefoot

[ˈbɛə^rfʊt]

adj
to be barefoot → être pieds nus

adv → nu-pieds, (les) pieds nus
The children go around barefoot → Les enfants se promènent nu-pieds.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

barefoot

[ˈbɛəˌfʊt] barefooted [ˌbɛəˈfʊtɪd] adj & adv → scalzo/a, a piedi nudi

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bare

(beə) adjective

1. uncovered or naked. bare skin; bare floors.

2. empty. bare shelves.

3. of trees etc, without leaves.

4. worn thin. The carpet is a bit bare.

5. basic; essential. the bare necessities of life.

verb

to uncover. The dog bared its teeth in anger.

ˈbarely adverb

scarcely or only just. We have barely enough food.

ˈbareness noun

ˈbareback adverb, adjective

without a saddle. I enjoy riding bareback.

ˈbarefaced adjective

openly impudent. a barefaced lie.

ˈbarefoot(ed) adjective, adverb

not wearing shoes or socks etc. The children go barefoot on the beach.

ˌbareˈheaded adjective, adverb

not wearing a hat etc.

barefoot

→ حافي القَدَمَيـْن bosý, naboso barfodet, med bare fødder barfuß, barfüßig ξυπόλητος, ξυπόλυτος descalzo paljain jaloin, paljasjalkainen nu-pieds, pieds nus bos, bosih nogu a piedi nudi, scalzo 裸足で, 裸足の 맨발로, 맨발의 blootsvoets, op blote voeten barbeint boso, bosy descalço босиком, босой barfota เท้าเปล่า çıplak ayak, çıplak ayakla chân trần, đi chân không 赤着脚, 赤脚的

barefoot

a. descalzo-a, sin zapatos.

barefoot

adj descalzo

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The frost was working out of the ground, and out of the air, too, and it was getting closer and closer onto barefoot time every day; and next it would be marble time, and next mumbletypeg, and next tops and hoops, and next kites, and then right away it would be summer and going in a-swimming.

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It is in length three GLOMGLUNGS (which make about fifty-four English miles,) and two and a half in breadth; as I measured it myself in the royal map made by the king's order, which was laid on the ground on purpose for me, and extended a hundred feet: I paced the diameter and circumference several times barefoot, and, computing by the scale, measured it pretty exactly.

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Everyone would kiss me and weep (what idiots they would be if they did not), while I should go barefoot and hungry preaching new ideas and fighting a victorious Austerlitz against the obscurantists.

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Ladd; and to think we can remember the time he was a barefoot boy without two shirts to his back!

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We ran from the top of the Heights to the park, without stopping - Catherine completely beaten in the race, because she was barefoot. You'll have to seek for her shoes in the bog to-morrow.

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"My meaning is," said Sancho, "let us set about becoming saints, and we shall obtain more quickly the fair fame we are striving after; for you know, senor, yesterday or the day before yesterday (for it is so lately one may say so) they canonised and beatified two little barefoot friars, and it is now reckoned the greatest good luck to kiss or touch the iron chains with which they girt and tortured their bodies, and they are held in greater veneration, so it is said, than the sword of Roland in the armoury of our lord the King, whom God preserve.

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The group on the pier was a rusty one--men and women, and boys and girls, all ragged and barefoot, uncombed and unclean, and by instinct, education, and profession beggars.