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Definition: Blonde |
BlondeAdjective1. Being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or gray eyes; "blond Scandinavians"; "a house full of light-haired children". Noun1. A person with fair skin and hair. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blonde" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Synonyms: BlondeSynonyms: light-haired (adj), blond (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: brunet (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Blonde |
| English words defined with "blonde": bombshell ♦ natural ♦ slender, slight, slim ♦ unbleached, uncolored, undyed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blonde": Women. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "blonde": Auburn. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Blonde" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (blond, blonde). |
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Screenplays | If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a single one of us is going to get her. So then we go for her friends, but they will all give us the cold shoulder because no on likes to be second choice (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) The other girls were blonde and delicate, and I was a swarthy six-year-old with sideburns (My Big Fat Greek Wedding; writing credit: Nia Vardalos) Mr. Blonde! What happened to you (Reservoir Dogs; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino) Blonde wasn't the word for it. Honey-blonde, and real (The Long Wait; writing credit: Alan Green; Lesser Samuels) | |
Lyrics | And brushes her long blonde hair (Wonderful Tonight; performing artist: ERIC CLAPTON) I think it is time for you to move on and find another blonde (Another Dumb Blond; performing artist: Hoku) That I think it's time for you to find another dumb blonde (Another Dumb Blond; performing artist: Hoku) The blonde waitresses take their trays (Walk Like An Egyptian; performing artist: The Bangles) | |
Clever | Caution - Driver Legally Blonde! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Legally Blonde (2003) Blonde Barbarei (1972) Haunts of a Honey Blonde (1968) La Blonde de Pékin (1967) Blonde Cobra (1963) | |
Song Titles | 'Cause I'm A Blonde (performing artist: Julie Brown) Another Dumb Blonde (performing artist: Hoku) | |
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A little girl, possibly a leukemia patient, is sitting on the doctor's lap. The girl is blonde, around 4 or 5 years old and conversing with the doctor. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ![]() | Face of blonde girl with earrings. Credit: Library of Congress. | |
![]() | Head of girl with long blonde hair. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Philip Bosco as physicist Niels Bohr in "Copenhagen" and Claudia Shear as Mae West in "Dirty Blonde" / Hirschfeld 5. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Betty Grable in the beautiful blonde from Bashful Bend : It's Betty - the biggest draw with the men anywhere!. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Agriculture. Women on farms. The horses, cows, and chickens cared for, Mrs. Harold Sontag of Maple Park, Illinois, starts out for the farmhouse with her blonde, pre-school youngsters. Like many another U.S. farmer's wife, Mrs. Sontag takes an extremely ac. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Krazy Kat. "I'm gunna be a blonde". Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | British Blonde Burlesque Troupe. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Legally Blonde" by Laura Kennedy Commentary: "Legally Blonde was projected onto my housemates face. This photo is part of my blurry series." | "Blonde happy" by Debbie L Manville Commentary: "A pic I took for a resume I made." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Dolly Parton | I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb ... and I also know that I'm not blonde. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She was a pretty blonde with fine teeth |
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| "Blonde" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 93.96% of the time. "Blonde" is used about 827 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 93.96% | 777 | 8,883 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.92% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 827 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "blonde": blonde lace ♦ blonde lilian ♦ bottle blonde ♦ peroxide blonde ♦ platinum blonde ♦ strawberry blonde. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "blonde": blonde-framed, blonde-haired, blonde-rinsed. | |
Ending with "blonde": ash-blonde, honey-blonde. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
blonde | 10,528 | busty blonde | 445 |
black on blonde | 9,350 | blonde blow job | 370 |
blonde sex | 8,015 | xxx blonde | 345 |
blonde joke | 5,550 | blonde model | 324 |
2 blonde legally | 2,060 | blonde angel | 305 |
legally blonde | 1,849 | porn blonde | 289 |
2 blonde legallly red white | 1,772 | blonde hardcore | 284 |
hot blonde | 1,767 | concrete blonde | 283 |
anita blonde | 1,340 | blonde mature | 278 |
blonde babe | 990 | bikini blonde | 277 |
nude blonde | 958 | blonde ass | 273 |
blonde teen | 909 | blonde gallery | 264 |
sexy blonde | 852 | niki blonde | 251 |
blonde pussy | 769 | blonde pic | 245 |
blonde lesbian | 641 | blonde with big tit | 244 |
blonde girl | 594 | beautiful blonde | 243 |
dumb blonde joke | 571 | anal blonde | 234 |
blonde savage | 564 | blonde playmate | 233 |
naked blonde | 551 | blonde amateur | 229 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "blonde"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bjond (fair, fair haired, Goldilocks), leshverdhë (blond). (various references) | |
Arabic | الأشقر الشعر و البشرة, شقراء. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | рус (blond, fair, towheaded), блондинка (blond), блондин (blond). (various references) | |
Chinese | 白肤金发 (Blond). (various references) | |
Czech | blondýnka, svìtlý (blond, light, white). (various references) | |
Finnish | vaaleaverinen (blond, fair), vaaleaverikkö. (various references) | |
French | blond (blond). (various references) | |
German | blondine, blonde (blond), blond (blond, fair, fair haired, fair-haired, light). (various references) | |
Greek | ξανθός (blond, fair, light, pale), ξανθιά, ξανθομάλλα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | בלונדינית, בלונדיני. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szőke (blond, fair, light). (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang yang berambut pirang. (various references) | |
Italian | biondo (blond, blond colour, fair, fair colour, fair-haired, golden, light). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ブロック塀 (blob, bond, Brocken, bromide, bronze, concrete block wall, publicity photograph). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブロンド . (various references) | |
Korean | 금발 (Blond). (various references) | |
Manx | caillin fynn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ondeblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | renda de seda. (various references) | |
Romanian | blondã, bãlaie, femeie blondã. (various references) | |
Russian | блондинка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | plavuša, plavojka. (various references) | |
Spanish | rubio (blond, dusky, fair, fair haired, fair-haired, light, yellow), rubia (madder). (various references) | |
Swedish | blond (blond, fair, fair-haired). (various references) | |
Thai | เป็นสีทอง. (various references) | |
Turkish | sarışın kız, sarışın (blond, fair, fair haired), ipek dantel. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | світлий (bright, candid, clear, light, lightsome, whitish), білявий (fair, white-haired), блондинка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người đàn bà tóc hoe, cô gái tóc hoe. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | flavum, flavus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blonde": blonder, blondes, blondest. (additional references) | |
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"Blonde" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ablondi, balande, Bellenden, bioned, blanda, Blando, blenda, blenden, blinde, blode, blome, Blondeau, blonded, Blondeel, blondel, blondey, blondi, blondie, blondy, blone, bloode, bloodee, blound, blunden, blundun, blynde, bodne, bolined, bonda, bonde, bondo, Bontddu, Bownde, Bulonda, londe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blonde" (pronounced blÄ"nd) |
| 5 | b l Ä" n d | blond. |
| 3 | -Ä" n d | beyond, bond, conned, correspond, donned, fond, frond, Monde, pond, respond, wand. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-l-n-o" | |
-1 letter: blend, blond, boned, lobed, loden, noble, olden. | |
-2 letters: bend, bled, bode, bold, bole, bond, bone, dole, done, ebon, enol, lend, leno, lobe, lode, lone, node, noel. | |
-3 letters: bed, bel, ben, bod, deb, del, den, doe, dol, don, eld, end, eon, led, lob, neb, nob, nod, obe, ode, old, ole, one. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, de. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-l-n-o" | |
+1 letter: blonder, blondes, nobbled, unlobed. | |
+2 letters: banderol, beholden, belonged, blazoned, blondest, bludgeon, boldness, bondable, doblones, embolden, englobed, ennobled, imbolden, unbolted, undoable, undouble, unilobed. | |
+3 letters: balconied, ballooned, banderole, banderols, bandoleer, bandolier, beclowned, beholding, bloodline, bludgeons, boundless, conglobed, detonable, doubleton, emboldens, hobnailed, imboldens, nonedible, nosebleed, soundable, unbeloved, unblocked, unblooded, undoubled, undoubles. | |
+4 letters: banderoles, bandoleers, bandoliers, bankrolled, beblooding, beclouding, belladonna, bidonville, bloodiness, bloodlines, bloodstone, bludgeoned, boldnesses, bondholder, boondoggle, borderland, borderline, brownfield, condonable, debonairly, doubleness, doubletons, emblazoned, emboldened, endorsable, hornblende, imboldened, linerboard, mindblower, molybdenum, nondurable, nosebleeds, obediently, panbroiled, pardonable, ponderable, redoubling, roundtable, snowballed, spellbound, tumbledown, unbeholden, unbloodied, untroubled. | |
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