blond

Meanings

Plural: blonds

Noun

a person with fair skin and hair
a light grayish yellow to near white
A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color.
A person with this hair color.
A beer of a pale golden color.

Adjective

being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes
- "blond Scandinavians"

Adj

Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour.
Having blond hair.
Alternative spelling of blonde (“stupid”).

Verb

To color or dye blond.

Origin / 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 ब्रध्न (bradhná, “ruddy, pale red, yellowish”).

Synonyms

and towhead(ed), auricomous, blonde, fair-haired, fairheaded, flaxen, golden-haired, light-haired, platinum, tow-haired, Traditional terms for light hair are fair(-haired), yellow-haired

Antonyms

brunet

Scrabble Score: 8

blond is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
blond is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 11

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