单词 | blond |
释义 | blond (once / 1591 pages) adjn Blond isn't just a word used to describe pale yellow hair, it can also be used to describe a person with such hair. We'll leave it to you to decide whether or not blonds have more fun. There's all kinds of blonds out there from bleached to platinum to strawberry to sandy. Some people, Brits especially, will add an e to the end of blonde depending on what gender they are talking about, so that a woman is blonde while a man is blond. The addition of the "e" in the feminine form of blonde is of course a holdover from its French origin. Not only fair-haired people are described as blond; you might have seen blond wood used in Scandinavian furniture. Ikea, anyone? WORD FAMILYblond: blondly, blondness, blonds USAGE EXAMPLESActually, it’s something of a return to the world Ms. Peevey inhabited as a cute, blond 10-year-old from Oklahoma City. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) And in still another, a king’s daughter is said to be “as blond as lily pollen and the slightly gilded silver of ancient altar vases.” Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) And face it: Lively is at a disadvantage because she’s long-legged and blond in that California-girl way. Time(Dec 28, 2016) 1adj being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes blond Scandinavians Syn|Ant blonde, light-haired ash-blonde, platinum-blonde, towheaded of hair color; whitish fair, fairish(used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored flaxen, sandyof hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown nordicresembling peoples of Scandinavia redheadedhaving red hair and usually fair skin brunet, brunette marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes adustburned brown by the sun bronzed, suntanned, tanned(of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun brown, browned(of skin) deeply suntanned darkbrunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) black-haired, brown-haired, dark-hairedhaving hair of a dark color dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthynaturally having skin of a dark color grizzledhaving dark hairs mixed with grey or white nutbrownof the color of nuts 2n a person with fair skin and hair Syn|Hypo|Hyper blonde peroxide blond, peroxide blonde a blond whose hair is bleached with peroxide platinum blond, platinum blondea blond whose hair is a pale silvery (often artificially colored) blond towheada person with light blond hair individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being 3n a light grayish yellow to near white Syn|Hyper blonde chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour a color that has hue |
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