Blond
adj, name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 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
- 1 To color or dye blond. transitive
- 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."
- 1 being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes wordnet
- 1 A surname.
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More examples"It was good to feel like one of the group, because my blond hair and 185 cm height already made me stand out."
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”).
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