What does "blond" mean?
A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color.
Blond
/blɒnd/ adj, name, noun, verb
adj, name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color.
- Grammar: blond is listed as adj, name, noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: blonde, aflaxen, and towhead(ed), ash blond.
- Useful contrasts: auburn, brunet, brunets.
- Usage evidence: It was good to feel like one of the group, because my blond hair and 185 cm height already made me stand out.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color. countable, uncountable
- 2 a light grayish yellow to near white wordnet
- 3 A person with this hair color. countable
- 4 a male person with fair skin and hair wordnet
- 5 A beer of a pale golden color. countable
Verb
- 1 To color or dye blond. transitive
Adjective
- 1 Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour.
"blond hair"
- 2 Having blond hair.
"He seemed—somehow—younger than I had ever been, and blonder and more beautiful, and he wore his masculinity as unequivocally as he wore his skin."
- 3 Alternative spelling of blonde (“stupid”). alt-of, alternative
"“She was so blond, that where it said 'sign here,' she wrote Gemini.” He had given her only the weakest of smiles."
Adjective
- 1 being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"It was good to feel like one of the group, because my blond hair and 185 cm height already made me stand out."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "blond"?
Common synonyms include: blonde, aflaxen, and towhead(ed), ash blond, ash-blond, auricomous.
How do you use "blond" in a sentence?
It was good to feel like one of the group, because my blond hair and 185 cm height already made me stand out.
How do you pronounce "blond"?
Pronounced /blɒnd/.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French blond m, from Old French blond, blont, blund, (> Medieval Latin blondus), from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”). Compare Old English blondenfeax (“grey-haired”), Old English blandan (“to mix”). More at blend. Alternative etymology connects Frankish *blund to Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“blond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ndʰ-, *bʰlendʰ- (“blond, red-haired”). If so, then it would be cognate with Sanskrit ब्रध्न (bradhná, “ruddy, pale red, yellowish”).