Blonde Meaning
/blɒnd/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAlternative form of blond (“person with fair hair”). (Used especially of a woman. See the usage notes in the entry blond.)
nounAlternative form of blond (“color”)
Sentence Examples
A blonde is speaking to her psychiatrist.
A girl with blonde hair came to see you.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She dyed her hair a shiny ____ color that matched her fair skin.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ woman was sitting on the bench and reading a new book today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle French blonde f. See blond.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Most [camera crews] carry two blondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces."
— 2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 63:
"So the great wasteful summer days went by, the glory of the passionate nights of July, the crisper blonde luxuriance of August."
— 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:
"Como en aquel bar de Copenhague lleno de hombres rubios y de mujeres rubias que al final resultaron ser también hombres rubios, donde el Torpedero Tucumán se había enfadado porque al meter mano se encontró quinientos buenos gramos de lo que no esperaba; […]"
— 2001, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, “The Lost Ship”, in The Nautical Chart, San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt, Inc., →ISBN, page 78:
"The tables are full of blond men and blonde women, the room full of the smells of food and the sound of harsh, clipped Northlander voices."
— 2007, Meg Burden, chapter 9, in Northlander (Tales of the Borderlands; 1), Weston, Conn.: Brown Barn Books, →ISBN, page 67:
"Emma's already huge green eyes widen and she gives me this look like, “Oh my God, sometimes you are just so blonde!”"
— 2005, Nancy Bartholomew, Lethally Blonde, Silhouette, →ISBN, page 8:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She dyed her hair a shiny ____ color that matched her fair skin.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ woman was sitting on the bench and reading a new book today.