Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Blonde

Definition: Blonde

Blonde

Adjective

1. Being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or gray eyes; "blond Scandinavians"; "a house full of light-haired children".

Noun

1. 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: Blonde

Synonyms: light-haired (adj), blond (n). (additional references)
Antonym: brunet (adj). (additional references)

Top     

Crosswords: Blonde

English words defined with "blonde": bombshellnaturalslender, slight, slimunbleached, 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).

Top     

Modern Usage: Blonde

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Commercial Usage: Blonde

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Image Slideshow: Blonde

Photos:
Blonde

More pictures...

Illustrations:
Blonde

More pictures...

Computer Images:
Blonde

More pictures...

Top     

Photo Album: Blonde

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Top     

Digital Photo Gallery: Blonde
 

"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.

Top     

Familiar Quotations: Blonde

AuthorQuotation

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Use in Literature: Blonde

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

She was a pretty blonde with fine teeth

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Usage Frequency: Blonde

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)93.96%7778,883
Noun (singular)5.92%4948,677
Noun (proper)0.12%1339,140
                    Total100.00%827N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Expressions: Blonde

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.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blonde

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

Top     

Modern Translation: Blonde

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.

Top     

Ancestral Language Translations: Blonde

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

flavum, flavus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Derivations & Misspellings: Blonde

Derivations

Words beginning with "blonde": blonder, blondes, blondest. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

Top     

Rhyming with "Blonde"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "blonde" (pronounced blÄ"nd)
5b l Ä" n dblond.
3-Ä" n dbeyond, bond, conned, correspond, donned, fond, frond, Monde, pond, respond, wand.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Top     

Anagrams: Blonde

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.