blonde

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   (film, television, theater) A kind of 2,000-watt lamp.

   Most [camera crews] carry two blondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces.

2. 2
   adj

   Alternative form of blond.

   So the great wasteful summer days went by, the glory of the passionate nights of July, the crisper blonde luxuriance of August.

3. 3
   adj

   Stupid, ignorant, naive.

   Emma's already huge green eyes widen and she gives me this look like, “Oh my God, sometimes you are just so blonde!”

4. 4
   verb

   Alternative form of blond.

   Most women who blonde their hair today have been doing it for several years.

5. 5
   adj

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

6. 6
   noun

   a light grayish yellow to near white

7. 7
   noun

   a person with fair skin and hair

8. 8
   noun

   Alternative form of blond (“person with fair hair”). (Used especially of a woman. See the usage notes in the entry blond.)

Etymology

From Middle French blonde f. See blond.