light blue
light blue noun: a pale blue colour: sky blue or similar.
Noun
light blue (countable and uncountable, plural light blues)
- A pale blue colour: sky blue or similar.
- A member of the Cambridge rowing team.
- The university did not touch my world directly but you couldn't be a boy in Oxford without supporting the dark blues against the Cambridge light blues, in the boat race […]2018, Will Wyatt, Oxford Boy: A Post-War Townie Childhood
light blue meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Arabic and Persian
light blue in Tamil
- a pale blue colour: sky blue or similar
- இளநீலம் iḷanīlam
light blue in Kannada
- ತಿಳಿನೀಲಿ
light blue in Arabic
- a pale blue colour: sky blue or similar
- سَمَاوِيّ samāwiyy, لَبَنِيّ labaniyy
light blue in Persian
- a pale blue colour: sky blue or similar
- آبی روشن âbi-ye rowšan
Forms of light blue
| plural | light blues |
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Origin of light blue
From Middle English light blewe, equivalent to light + blue.
Questions about light blue
- What does light blue mean?
- Light blue means a pale blue colour: sky blue or similar.
- What is light blue in Tamil?
- Light blue in Tamil is இளநீலம் (iḷanīlam). See Light blue meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is light blue?
- Light blue is a noun.
- What is the plural of light blue?
- The plural of light blue is light blues.
Words near light blue in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: light blue (page history and authors); light blue (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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