BLOND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blond mean? 

• BLOND (noun)
  The noun BLOND has 2 senses:

1. a person with fair skin and hair

2. a light grayish yellow to near white

  Familiarity information: BLOND used as a noun is rare.

• BLOND (adjective)
  The adjective BLOND has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BLOND used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person with fair skin and hair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blond; blonde

Hypernyms ("blond" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blond"):

peroxide blond; peroxide blonde (a blond whose hair is bleached with peroxide)

platinum blond; platinum blonde (a blond whose hair is a pale silvery (often artificially colored) blond)

towhead (a person with light blond hair)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A light grayish yellow to near white

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

blond; blonde

Hypernyms ("blond" is a kind of...):

chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)

• BLOND (adjective)

Comparative: blonder   
Superlative: blondest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

blond; blonde; light-haired

Context example:

a house full of light-haired children

Similar:

ash-blonde; platinum-blonde; towheaded (of hair color; whitish)

fair; fairish ((used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored)

flaxen; sandy (of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown)

nordic (resembling peoples of Scandinavia)

redheaded (having red hair and usually fair skin)

Attribute:

complexion; skin color; skin colour (the coloring of a person's face)

Antonym:

brunet (marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes)

Derivation:

blondness (the property of having a naturally light complexion)

 Context examples 

It is seen in people with blond or red hair and blue or hazel eyes.

(Fitzpatrick Skin Type I, NCI Thesaurus)

It is usually seen in people with blond or red hair and blue or hazel eyes.

(Fitzpatrick Skin Type II, NCI Thesaurus)

Silver had thrown his hat beside him on the ground, and his great, smooth, blond face, all shining with heat, was lifted to the other man's in a kind of appeal.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Jimmy, the plumber, he met there, in the company of a tall, blond girl who promptly forsook him for Martin.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was just fastening my veil (the plain square of blond after all) to my hair with a brooch; I hurried from under her hands as soon as I could.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The manager, a big blond German, received us civilly and gave a clear answer to all Holmes’s questions.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I really feel like a dissipated London fine lady, writing here so late, with my room full of pretty things, and my head a jumble of parks, theaters, new gowns, and gallant creatures who say Ah! and twirl their blond mustaches with the true English lordliness.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She was a tall, blond woman, slender, and stately, and beautiful.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I thought how I would carry down to you the square of unembroidered blond I had myself prepared as a covering for my low-born head, and ask if that was not good enough for a woman who could bring her husband neither fortune, beauty, nor connections.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The world belongs to the true nobleman, to the great blond beasts, to the noncompromisers, to the 'yes-sayers.'

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)