blond

C2 Topic:Describing Qualities

US /blɑnd/ UK /blɒnd/ See IPA manual

Homophones

blonde /blɑnd/

Minimal pairs

Sounds like bland /æ/ vs /ɑ/

Freq #6157

Meanings

1

adj
being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes

Blond Scandinavians.
2

adj
Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour.

Blond hair.
3

adj
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.
4

adj
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.

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Synonyms

1 adj · being or having light... blondelight-haired

More auricomousfair-hairedfairheadedflaxengolden-hairedplatinumtow-hairedyellow-haired

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platinum blond
a person whose hair is a very pale, silvery blond

Noun + noun

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 ब्र...

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# blond

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /blɑnd/
**IPA (UK):** /blɒnd/
**Frequency rank:** 6157

## Meanings
1. being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes
2. Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour.
3. Having blond hair.
4. Alternative spelling of blonde (“stupid”).

## Examples
- Blond Scandinavians.
- 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.
- “She was so blond, that where it said 'sign here,' she wrote Gemini.” He had given her only the weakest of smiles.

## Synonyms
- auricomous
- fair-haired
- fairheaded
- flaxen
- golden-haired
- platinum
- tow-haired
- yellow-haired

## 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 ब्र...

## Topics
- Describing Qualities

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