blend
/blɛnd/
blend noun: a mixture of two or more things.
Noun
blend (plural blends)
- A mixture of two or more things.
- Their music has been described as a blend of jazz and heavy metal.
- Our department has a good blend of experienced workers and young promise.
- Synonyms:
- combination, mix, mixture
- A word formed by combining two other words; a portmanteau word.
- Blends, also known as portmanteau words, are not an original part of English. That is, none occur in Old or Middle English, nor even in Elizabethan English, with the earliest known example being the rare and now obsolete term tomaxe, a blend of tomahawk and axe.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10
- Synonyms:
- frankenword, portmanteau, portmanteau word, portmantologism
Verb
blend (third-person singular simple present blends, present participle blending, simple past and past participle blended or (poetic) blent)
- To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
- To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.
- Synonyms:
- fuse, homogenize, inosculate, uniformize, admix, amalgamate, bemingle, combine, commingle, intermingle
- To be mingled or mixed.
- There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.1819 June 23 – 1820 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “(please specify the title)”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van...
- To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent1817, John Keats, Happy is England!
- To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
- These stormes, which now his beauty blend,
Shall turn to calmes.1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXII”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC
- These stormes, which now his beauty blend,
blend meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
blend in Hindi
- mixture
- मिश्रण miśraṇ
blend in Tamil
- mixture
- கலவை kalavai
blend in Urdu
- to blend, mix
- ملنا milnā
blend in Bengali
- মিশ্রণ, মিশ্রিত বস্তু, মিশান, একত্র মিশ্রিত করা, একত্র মিশ্রিত হওয়া, মিশ খাওয়ান
More languagesFewer languages
- blend in Telugu
- కలగలుపు kalagalupu, సమ్మేళనము sammēḷanamu, కలుపు kalupu, మేళవించు mēḷaviñcu
- blend in Malayalam
- കലർത്തുക, യോജിപ്പിക്കുക, ലയിപ്പിക്കുക, ചാലിക്കുക
- blend in Kannada
- ಸಮ್ಮಿಶ್ರಣ, ಹದಬೆರಕೆ, ಹದವಾಗಿ ಕಲಸು, ಮಿಶ್ರಣಮಾಡು
- blend in Indonesian
- mencampur
- blend in Thai
- ปั่น bpàn
Examples of blend in a sentence
- So when he wants to, he can just kind of blend into the woodwork.
- The mottled skin of the snake was a camouflage that helped it blend in with the shadows.
- He disguised himself as a businessman to blend in with the others wearing suits.
Synonyms of blend
- combination
- mix
- mixture
- frankenword
- portmanteau
- portmanteau word
- portmantologism
- fuse
- homogenize
- inosculate
29 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Forms of blend
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | blends |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | blends |
| present participle | blending |
| past participle | blended |
| past | blended |
| past participle poetic | blent |
| past poetic | blent |
Origin of blend
From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan, ġeblandan, ġeblendan or from Old Norse blanda (“to blend, mix”) (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend; compare blendingr (“a blending, a mixture; a half-breed”)), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blandaną (“to blend; mix; combine”). Compare Middle Dutch blanden (“to mix”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (blandan), Old Church Slavonic блєсти (blesti, “to go astray”).
Words formed from blend
Phrases with blend
Words that rhyme with blend
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- spend
- suspend
- trend
- ascend
- offend
- pretend
- unbend
- commend
- tend
- amend
- contend
- depend
- lend
- distend
- impend
- recommend
- rend
- shend
- subtend
- tight end
- upend
- wend
- append
- befriend
- pend
- resend
- transcend
- abend
- comprehend
- entend
- fend
- obtend
- perpend
- portend
- unfriend
- vend
- weekend
- when'd
- blende
- defriend
- disrecommend
- emend
- expend
- forfend
- forspend
- freakend
- genetic dead end
- heaven forfend
Questions about blend
- What does blend mean?
- Blend means a mixture of two or more things.
- What is blend in Hindi?
- Blend in Hindi is मिश्रण (miśraṇ). See Blend meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is blend?
- Blend can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce blend?
- Blend is pronounced /blɛnd/.
- What is the plural of blend?
- The plural of blend is blends.
Words near blend in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: blend (page history and authors); ملنا (Urdu) (page history and authors); blend (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blend (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); blend (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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