Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having fair hair and skin.
- adjective Of a flaxen or golden color or of any light shade of auburn or pale yellowish brown.
- adjective Light-colored through bleaching.
- noun A person with fair hair and skin.
- noun A light yellowish brown to dark grayish yellow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a light golden-brown or golden color: applied to hair; hence, light-colored; fair: applied to complexion, and by extension to persons having light hair or a fair complexion: as, “Godfrey's blond countenance,”
- noun A person with blond hair and fair complexion.
- noun Blond-lace (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a fair color; light-colored.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person of fair hair.
- noun A
pale yellowish (golden brown )color , especially as a hair color. - adjective Of a bleached or pale golden (light
yellowish ) colour. - adjective of a person Having blond hair.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person with fair skin and hair
- noun a light grayish yellow to near white
- adjective being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Walking around in real life as a blond is a little bit different, I've got to say," he grinned.
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Though Jodelle Furland in blond hair could probably do the trick as wel or Daveigh Elizabeth Chase (she was the girl in the ring) but look at her these days.
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Blessed art thou, bald eagle in blond wood, beak agape, swoop down and clutch us now.
Antiques Fair 2010
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Blessed art thou, bald eagle in blond wood, beak agape, swoop down and clutch us now.
Antiques Fair 2010
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Now, let me be clear that this doesn't officially mean anything, but when almost the entire supporting cast of "Twilight" shows up to the premiere of "Push," which stars a certain blond haired starlet, it has to mean something!
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(And a certain blond gentleman and I have to solve our perpetual "we don't have a room to use!" problem by January.)
Drinking kires 2009
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Prince, his dark hair bleached blond, is clad in similar footwear and a kiddie police uniform, complete with plastic handcuffs hanging from a belt loop.
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Blessed art thou, bald eagle in blond wood, beak agape, swoop down and clutch us now.
Antiques Fair 2010
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Yes | No | Report from andy wrote 1 year 31 weeks ago might as well have some more. kinch, carter, richard dawson, dont even try the little french guy, you'll be laughed at, burkehalter, I forgot the good lookin blond, inga mabey
Name My Dog 2008
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The dorky blond from the WSJ editorial page — Kim Strassel — may be an even bigger fan of Bush (er, President Bush, that is). kafka Says:
lampbane commented on the word blond
One of the few English words with a masculine and feminine form (blonde).
December 13, 2006