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I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.
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Meaning of "bald" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BALD

Ballede (literally: having a white spot); related to Danish bǣldet, Greek phalaros having a white spot.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BALD

bald  [bɔːld] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BALD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bald is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BALD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

bald

Hair loss

Hair loss or baldness is a loss of hair from the head or body. Baldness can refer to general hair loss or male pattern baldness specifically. Some types of baldness can be caused by alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder. The extreme forms of alopecia areata are alopecia totalis, which involves the loss of all head hair, and alopecia universalis, which involves the loss of all hair from the head and the body. Baldness and hypotrichosis can have many causes, including fungal infection, traumatic damage, such as by compulsive pulling, as a result of radiotherapy or chemotherapy, and as a result of nutritional deficiencies such as iron, and as a result of autoimmune phenomena, including alopecia areata and hair loss associated with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Definition of bald in the English dictionary

The first definition of bald in the dictionary is having no hair or fur, esp having no hair on all or most of the scalp. Other definition of bald is lacking natural growth or covering. Bald is also plain or blunt.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BALD


appalled
əˈpɔːld
auld
ɔːld
called
kɔːld
cauld
kɔːld
close-hauled
ˌkləʊsˈhɔːld
Cumbernauld
ˌkʌmbəˈnɔːld
enthralled
ɪnˈθrɔːld
fauld
fɔːld
piebald
ˈpaɪˌbɔːld
scald
skɔːld
sea-walled
ˈsiːˌwɔːld
skald
skɔːld
skewbald
ˈskjuːˌbɔːld
spauld
spɔːld
sprawled
sprɔːld
unappalled
ˌʌnəˈpɔːld
uncalled
ʌnˈkɔːld
unrecalled
ˌʌnrɪˈkɔːld
walled
wɔːld
yald
jɔːld

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BALD

balcony
bald cypress
bald eagle
baldachin
baldachino
baldaquin
Balder
balderdash
balderlocks
baldfaced
baldhead
baldheaded
baldies
balding
baldish
baldly
baldmoney
baldness
baldpate
baldric

WORDS THAT END LIKE BALD

aefald
Buchenwald
Donald
emerald
Fitzgerald
Grindelwald
herald
Macdonald
McDonald
Ostwald
Oswald
ribald
Schwarzwald
semibald
sunscald
Teutoburger Wald
the Weald
Tynwald
weald
woald

Synonyms and antonyms of bald in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BALD»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bald» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of bald

Translation of «bald» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BALD

Find out the translation of bald to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bald from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bald» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

光秃的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

calvo
570 millions of speakers

English

bald
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गंजा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أَصْلَع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лысый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

careca
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পালকহীন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chauve
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Botak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kahl
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

頭のはげた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

대머리의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Botak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hói đầu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வழுக்கை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टक्कल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kel
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

calvo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

łysy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лисий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

chel
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φαλακρός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kaal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

flintskallig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skallet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bald

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BALD»

The term «bald» is very widely used and occupies the 7.979 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BALD» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «bald» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «bald» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bald

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10 QUOTES WITH «BALD»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bald.
1
Karen Armstrong
It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
2
Matthew Arnold
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
3
Mackenzie Astin
Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
4
Elayne Boosler
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.
5
Jorge Luis Borges
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Jimmy Breslin
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
7
Frank Cady
At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.
8
Bennett Cerf
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
9
Connie Chung
I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.
10
Joe Cocker
God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BALD»

Discover the use of bald in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bald and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Bald Book
A warm, hilarious celebration of baldness points out the myriad advantages of sporting a shiny pate, in a series of drawings and captions, from never having to worry about going gray to having more kissable surface area. Original.
‎1998
2
Bald Eagle
In this informative portrait, acclaimed nature artist Gordon Morrison takes us deep into the wilderness for a close up look at a family of American bald eagles.
‎2003
3
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
Nineteenth-century Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their villages in Bengal.
Vivek Bald, 2013
4
A-Z Mysteries - The Bald Bandit
Ron Roy.
Ron Roy, 2010
5
Bald Eagles
Describes the physical characteristics, life cycle, and behavior of bald eagles, as well as efforts to protect them.
Charlotte Wilcox, 2003
6
Bald Eagles
Provides basic information about bald eagles, including habitat, behavior, and anatomy.
Meryl Magby, 2012
7
A Bald Eagle's World
This book explores the life of an eagle and its chicks.
Jules Verne, 2010
8
The Bald Truth
In The Bald Truth, Falk, respected throughout the industry as an innovator, candidly unveils the business secrets that have fueled his extraordinary success.
David Falk, 2009
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The Bald Eagle
Provides information about the bald eagle and explains how and why the bird came to be a symbol of the United States.
Karen Latchana Kenney, 2011
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Bald No More
A renowned medical journalist reveals a new program to stop baldness and restore lost hair that includes nutritional advice, herbal and hormonal remedies, minerals and vitamins, the breakthrough Thymu-Skin, how to clean the scalp properly, ...
Morton Walker, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BALD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bald is used in the context of the following news items.
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Bald eagles hatch and grow in Franklin County
The Pennsylvania Game Commission has confirmed seven nesting sites in the county. It's been a record year for bald eagle nests in Franklin ... «Chambersburg Public Opinion, Jul 15»
2
Bald Eagles Soar Above Dodger Stadium in Fourth of July Celebration
Two bald eagles soared high above the field at Dodger Stadium on Saturday as part of a stirring Fourth of July celebration at Chavez Ravine. «KTLA, Jul 15»
3
Kasabian say they're not old or BALD enough to sell themselves on …
Kasabian insist you won't catch them making big-money adverts like Clean Bandit with their cringey Cortana campaign – well, not until they're ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
4
Human Interaction Hurting Bald Eagles
Waynesboro (WHSV) -- The bald eagle, a once endangered species, has had trouble recently because of human interactions.The wildlife ... «WHSV, Jul 15»
5
“Time to change bald tyres” campaign in Brest
Atavists of the initiative Boycott dropped more than 1000 leaflets reading “Time to change bald tyres. Boycott 2015” from the roof of a ... «Charter 97, Jul 15»
6
Photographer Captures a Crow Riding on the Back of a Bald Eagle
“However, in this frame the crow did not seem to harass the bald eagle at such close proximity and neither did the bald eagle seem to mind the ... «PetaPixel, Jul 15»
7
Bald eagles no strangers to Mohawk Valley
SENECA FALLS — When visitors to Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge ask where they can see bald eagles, they're given plenty of choices. «Herkimer Evening Telegram, Jul 15»
8
Kelsey's legacy lives on in Bald Beauties Project
The non-profit Bald Beauties Project created by Kelsey Luria will hold its first fundraiser, "A Terra Cotta Dinner", on Sunday Aug. 23 at Pastiche ... «Arizona Daily Star, Jul 15»
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Eagle 629-03142, America's Oldest Bald Eagle, Has Died At Age 38
The Audubon Society has reported that the oldest tagged Bald Eagle in America has died at the age of 38. The bird has overseen the dramatic ... «io9, Jul 15»
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Bald Eagle rushed to Memphis after being found near Reelfoot Lake
The Bald Eagle is said to be in good condition and is even trying to fly. If it can, the bird will be released back into the wild. If not, it will be sent to ... «wreg.com, Jul 15»

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