BLONDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blonde mean? 

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

1. a person with fair skin and hair

2. a light grayish yellow to near white

  Familiarity information: BLONDE used as a noun is rare.

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLONDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person with fair skin and hair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blond; blonde

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

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

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

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 ("blonde" is a kind of...):

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

• BLONDE (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)

 Context examples 

There were plenty of pretty faces to admire, but the young man took little notice of them, except to glance now and then at some blonde girl in blue.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Gee, it's like old times," Jimmy explained to the gang that gave him the laugh as Martin and the blonde whirled away in a waltz.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was a blonde, golden-haired, blue-eyed, and would no doubt have had the perfect complexion which goes with such colouring, had not her recent experience left her drawn and haggard.

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

Miss Morrison is a little, ethereal slip of a girl, with timid eyes and blonde hair, but I found her by no means wanting in shrewdness and common sense.

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

Individuals who never tan and always sunburn if exposed to any appreciable amount of sunlight, primarily red headed individuals and lightly complected blondes.

(Fitzpatrick Skin Type I, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Here too were the beautiful brunettes of the Gironde, with eyes which out-flashed their jewels, while beside them rode their blonde sisters of England, clear cut and aquiline, swathed in swans'-down and in ermine, for the air was biting though the sun was bright.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As we approached, the door flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy pink chiffon at her neck and wrists.

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

But Martin restored the blonde to Jimmy, and the three of them, with half a dozen friends, watched the revolving couples and laughed and joked with one another.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The lady was young, blonde, and dressed in blue.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mary, a matronly young blonde, was washing dishes in the little back room that served for kitchen and dining room.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)