different between blonde vs blende

English

Alternative forms

• blond

Etymology

From Middle French blonde f. See blond.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bl?nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bl?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

blonde (plural blondes)

1. Alternative form of blond (person of fair hair). (Used especially of a woman. See the usage notes in the entry blond.)
2. Alternative form of blond (pale golden brown color).

Derived terms

• bottle blonde
• dumb blonde
• peroxide blonde

Translations

Adjective

blonde (comparative blonder or more blonde, superlative blondest or most blonde)

1. (especially of a woman) Alternative form of blond
2. (especially of a woman, offensive) Stupid, ignorant, naive.
   • 2005, Nancy Bartholomew, Lethally Blonde, Silhouette ?ISBN, page 8:

     Emma's already huge green eyes widen and she gives me this look like, “Oh my God, sometimes you are just so blonde!”

   • 2014, Aviva Drescher, Leggy Blonde: A Memoir (Simon and Schuster, ?ISBN):

     I was so blonde I honestly had no idea why he got so angry. He cooled on me for a week or so.

   • 2003, Bennett Fairorth, The Land Where My American Mother Died--Palermo, Sicily (iUniverse, ?ISBN), page 201:

     “She was so blonde, she studied for a blood test, when she went to the airport and saw a sign that said, 'Airport Left,' she turned around and went home, when she heard that 90% of all crimes occur around the home, she moved.

Usage notes

See the usage notes in the entry blond.

Translations

References

• “blonde”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Bolden, bolden, bolned

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

blonde

1. Inflected form of blond

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl??d/

Adjective

blonde

1. feminine singular of blond.

Noun

blonde f (plural blondes)

1. blonde, female with blonde hair
2. light beer
3. (Canada, Quebec, Louisiana, informal) girlfriend

Antonyms

• (girlfriend): chum

Related terms

• bière blonde

Further reading

• “blonde” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?nd?/

Adjective

blonde

1. inflection of blond:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -onde

Noun

blonde f pl

1. plural of blonda

Swedish

Adjective

blonde

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of blond.

English

Alternative forms

• blind, blinde

Etymology

From German Blende, from blenden (“deceive”) (because it resembles galena).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl?nd/
• Homophone: blend

Noun

blende (countable and uncountable, plural blendes)

1. (mineralogy) sphalerite (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc)
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 310:

     The procedure up here with ordinary local zinc blende had been straightforward—first you got the sulfur to go off by roasting the blende to zinc oxide, and then you reduced the oxide to zinc metal.

Translations

Anagrams

• Belden, Bendel, bendel

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?n.d?/
• Hyphenation: blen?de
• Rhymes: -?nd?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Blende.

Noun

blende f (uncountable)

1. metallic sulphide, in particular blende

Derived terms

• pekblende

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

blende

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blenden

French

Noun

blende m (plural blendes)

1. (mineralogy) blende

German

Verb

blende

1. inflection of blenden:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Blende, from blenden (“to blind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bl?nd?]
• Hyphenation: blen?de
• Rhymes: -d?

Noun

blende (plural blendék)

1. (photography) aperture (the opening of a photographic lens that can be adjusted to control the amount of light passing through)

   Synonym: rekesz

Declension

References

Italian

Noun

blende f

1. plural of blenda