blond

/blɑnd/

/blɒnd/

Other forms: blonds

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?

Definitions of blond

1. adjective

   being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes
   “blond Scandinavians”

   synonyms: blonde, light-haired

   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

   antonyms:

   brunet

   marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes

   adust

   burned brown by the sun

   bronzed, suntanned, tanned

   (of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun

   brown, browned

   (of skin) deeply suntanned

   dark

   brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)

   black-haired, brown-haired, dark-haired

   having hair of a dark color

   dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy

   naturally having skin of a dark color

   grizzled

   having dark hairs mixed with grey or white

   nutbrown

   of the color of nuts
2. noun

   a person with fair skin and hair
   synonyms: blonde

   types:

   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

   type of:

   individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

   a human being
3. noun

   a light grayish yellow to near white
   synonyms: blonde

   type of:

   chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour

   a color that has hue