blonde
/blɒnd/US/blɑnd/
blonde noun: (film, television, theater) A kind of 2,000-watt lamp. Also the alternative form of blond.
Noun
blonde (countable and uncountable, plural blondes)
- (film, television, theater) A kind of 2,000-watt lamp.
- 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
Adjective
blonde (comparative blonder or more blonde, superlative blondest or most blonde)
- Stupid, ignorant, naive.
- 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
- I was so blonde I honestly had no idea why he got so angry. He cooled on me for a week or so.2014, Aviva Drescher, Leggy Blonde: A Memoir, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN
Also used as
blonde is also the alternative form of blond.
blonde meaning in Kannada
blonde in Kannada
- ಹೊಂಬಣ್ಣದ, ಹೊಂಬಣ್ಣ
Forms of blonde
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | blondes |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | blonder |
| comparative | more blonde |
| superlative | blondest |
| superlative | most blonde |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | blondes |
| present participle | blonding |
| past participle | blonded |
| past | blonded |
Origin of blonde
From Middle French blonde f. See blond.
Words formed from blonde
- ash blonde
- atomic blonde
- aviation blonde
- blonde joke
- blonde moment
- blondeness
- blondie
- blondster
- bottle blonde
- bronde
- dirty blonde
- dishwater blonde
- dumb blonde
- golden blonde
- honey blonde
- ice blonde
- nonblonde
- peroxide blonde
- platinum blonde
- sandy blonde
- strawberry blonde
- titanium blonde
- blonde bombshell
Phrases with blonde
Words that rhyme with blonde
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Questions about blonde
- What does blonde mean?
- Blonde means (film, television, theater) A kind of 2,000-watt lamp.
- What is blonde in Kannada?
- Blonde in Kannada is ಹೊಂಬಣ್ಣದ, ಹೊಂಬಣ್ಣ. See Blonde meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is blonde?
- Blonde can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce blonde?
- Blonde is pronounced /blɒnd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of blonde?
- The plural of blonde is blondes.
Words near blonde in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: blonde (page history and authors); blonde (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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