BLOND

blond, blonde, light-haired

(adjective) being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes; “blond Scandinavians”; “a house full of light-haired children”

blond, blonde

(noun) a light grayish yellow to near white

blond, blonde

(noun) a person with fair skin and hair

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

blond (comparative blonder or more blond, superlative blondest or most blond)

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

(of a, person) Having blond hair.

Alternative spelling of blonde

Noun

blond (plural blonds)

A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color.

A person with this hair color.

Usage notes

• This word can vary according to gender, with “blond” being used of males and “blonde” of women and girls, following French usage. However, some writers, especially in the United States, treat the spellings as interchangeable and use both gender-neutrally. Compare, for example, the 2000 non-fiction book Angry Blonde and the 2001 film Legally Blonde, the titles of which refer to male and female blonds respectively.

• Traditional terms for light hair are fair(-haired), fairheaded, flaxen, tow-haired, yellow-haired, and towhead(ed).

Verb

blond (third-person singular simple present blonds, present participle blonding, simple past and past participle blonded)

To color or dye blond

Source: Wiktionary


Blond, Blonde, a. Etym: [F., fair, light, of uncertain origin; cf. AS. blonden-feax gray-haired, old, prop. blended-haired, as a mixture of white and brown or black. See Blend, v. t. ]

Definition: Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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