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blond (bländ)

adjective

  1. very light in color blond hair
  2. having light-colored hair, often with fair skin and blue or gray eyes
  3. finished in a light tone blond wood

Etymology: LME blounde < MFr blond < OFr < ? Gmc *blund

noun

a blond person

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blond Synonyms

blond

modif.

blonde, fair, fair-skinned, pale, light, ash-blond, platinum-blond, strawberry-blond, bleached, blanched, light-complexioned, washed-out, sallow, high in tone, pearly, platinum, towheaded, flaxen, snowy, ivory, creamy, whitish, milky, albino, lily-white, pallid, light-haired, golden-haired, fair-haired, yellow-haired, sandy-haired, faded, colorless, white-skinned, bleached-blond, natural-blond, peroxide blond, bottle-blond.

Antonyms dark*, brunet*, swarthy.


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blond Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • dumb: I am unfortunately a dumb blond that has no man at the moment to do this for me.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • have: Hockey has the very classic strawberry blond, Dixie Pixie look with those amazing eyes.

Modifies a noun

  • wig: Your wife drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you of what she looks like.

Modifying Another Word

  • very: He still has fine and very blond hair and the sweetest smile.

Used with adjective complement

  • go: Q I would very much like to cheer myself up and go blond.

Preposition: with

  • eye: Kate Keller was a tall, statuesque blond with blue eyes.
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blond quotes

unless statistics lie he was more brave than me: more blond than you

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

He looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan.

-Hammett, (Samuel) Dashiell

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