What is the difference between blond and brown?
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A person of fair hair.
A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially as a hair color.
Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour.
* 1914 , in the American Anthropologist :
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(of a, person) Having blond hair.
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A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
Black tar heroin.
(sometimes capitalised) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance
Having a brown colour.
(obsolete) Gloomy.
To become brown.
(cooking) To cook something until it becomes brown.
To tan.
To make brown or dusky.
* Barlow
To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
As nouns the difference between blond and brown
is that blond is a person of fair hair while brown is a colour like that of chocolate or coffee.As adjectives the difference between blond and brown
is that blond is of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour while brown is having a brown colour.As a verb brown is
to become brown.blond
English
(wikipedia blond)Alternative forms
* blondeNoun
(en noun)Usage notes
*This word can vary according to gender, with "blond" being used of males and "blonde" of females, following French usage. * Some writers, especially in the US, treat the spellings as interchangeable or use blond gender-neutrally. * Traditional terms for light hair are "fair(-haired]])''", "''fairheaded''", "''flaxen''", "''tow-haired''", and "''towhead([[towheaded, ed) ".Adjective
(en-adj)- blond hair
- blonde''' ale''; '''''blonde beer
- She has a blond complexion, with brown hair and gray eyes.
Derived terms
* ash blond/ash blonde * bleached blond/bleached blonde * blondie * blondish * blondism * blondly/blondely * blond metal * blond moment/blonde moment * blondness/blondeness * bottle blond/bottle blonde * dirty blond/dirty blonde * dishwater blond/dishwater blonde * dumb blond/dumb blonde * golden blond/golden blonde * honey blond/honey blonde * peroxide blond/peroxide blonde * platinum blond/platinum blonde * sandy blond/sandy blonde * strawberry blond/strawberry blonde * ultrablond * Venetian blond/Venetian blonde * white blond/white blondeSee also
* brunet, brunette *brown
English
(wikipedia brown)Noun
(en noun)- The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
Adjective
(en-adj)Antonyms
* (having brown as its colour) nonbrownDescendants
* American Sign Language:Verb
(en verb)- Fry the onions until they brown .
- Brown the onions in a large frying pan.
- Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
- A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
- (Ure)
- the browning of America