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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Yellow, as butter or cheese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, UK, dialectal, poetic, uncommon
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name
A surname.
An English surname transferred from the nickname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A surname.
A surname from Irish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A unisex given name.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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name
A unisex given name.
A female given name transferred from the surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: rather rare
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name
An unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: William Blake
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: painter, poet
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhel- Proto-Indo-European *bhleyǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *blaikaz Proto-West Germanic *blaik Old English blāc Middle English blake English blake From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English blāc (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”). Compare Scots bleg (“light, drab”). More at bleak.
A surname derived from either Old English blæc (“black”) or from Old English blāc (“pale, fair, shining, white”), or as an anglicisation of Irish Ó Bláthmaic.
