blond
adjEtymology
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”).
- derived from *bʰl̥ndʰ-✻
- derived from blond
- borrowed from blond
Definitions
Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour.
- blond hair
- blond ale
- blond beer
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.
- Blonde bombshells have been around since the beginning of time, but lately, stars have really been stepping up their golden-haired game.
Alternative spelling of blonde (“stupid”).
- “She was so blond, that where it said 'sign here,' she wrote Gemini.” He had given her only the weakest of smiles.
- Katelyn's laugh was nearly uncontrollable. “You are so blond sometimes,” she said with a long laughing sigh, but then calmed herself down.
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A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color.
A person with this hair color.
A beer of a pale golden color.
To color or dye blond.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- synonymplatinum
- synonymfair-haired
- synonymgolden-haired
- synonymauricomous
- synonymflaxen
- synonymTraditional terms for light hair are fair(-haired)
- synonymfairheaded
- synonymtow-haired
- synonymyellow-haired
- synonymand towhead(ed)
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A definitional loop anchored at blond. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at blond
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA