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But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
Thomas Mann

Meaning of "fair-haired" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FAIR-HAIRED

fair-haired  [ˌfeəˈheəd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FAIR-HAIRED

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

WHAT DOES FAIR-HAIRED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

fair-haired

Blond

Blond or blonde, or fair hair, is a hair color characterized by low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin. The resultant visible hue depends on various factors, but always has some sort of yellowish color. The color can be from the very pale blond to reddish "strawberry" blond colors or golden-brownish blond colors. On the Fischer–Saller scale blond color ranges from A to J.

Definition of fair-haired in the English dictionary

The definition of fair-haired in the dictionary is having blonde or light-coloured hair.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FAIR-HAIRED


ascared
əˈskeəd
curly-haired
ˌkɜːlɪˈheəd
dark-haired
ˌdɑːkˈheəd
greyhead
ˌɡreɪˈheəd
impaired
ɪmˈpeəd
incompared
ˌɪnkəmˈpeəd
light-haired
ˌlaɪtˈheəd
long-haired
ˌlɒŋˈheəd
self-declared
ˌselfdɪˈkleəd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FAIR-HAIRED

fair do´s
fair enough!
fair game
fair go!
Fair Isle
fair play
fair rent
fair sex
fair to middling
fair trade
fair-haired boy
fair-minded
fair-mindedness
fair-sized
fair-skinned
fair-spoken
fair-spokenness
fair-trade price
fair-weather
fair-weather friend

WORDS THAT END LIKE FAIR-HAIRED

ginger-haired
grey-haired
hearing impaired
inspired
mentally impaired
physically impaired
raven-haired
red-haired
short-haired
silver-haired
staired
tow-haired
unaired
unimpaired
unpaired
unrepaired
visually impaired
wavy-haired
well-aired
white-haired
wire-haired

Synonyms and antonyms of fair-haired in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fair-haired» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FAIR-HAIRED

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

Translator English - Chinese

金发
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de pelo rubio
570 millions of speakers

English

fair-haired
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निष्पक्ष बालों वाली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

معرض الشعر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

светловолосый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

loiro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ন্যায্য কেশিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

blond
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berambut cantik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

blond
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

金髪の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

국방
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Adil-rambut
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tóc vàng heo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அழகான கூந்தலுடன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुशोभित केलेले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sarışın
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dai capelli biondi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

jasnowłosy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

світловолосий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

blond
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ξανθοί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

blond
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

blond
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lyshåret
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fair-haired

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FAIR-HAIRED»

The term «fair-haired» is regularly used and occupies the 91.483 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FAIR-HAIRED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fair-haired

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QUOTES WITH «FAIR-HAIRED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fair-haired.
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Thomas Mann
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FAIR-HAIRED»

Discover the use of fair-haired in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fair-haired and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-haired Bastards: The Life of a ...
She adopted masculine dress and had romantic relationships with other women, such as writer Elsa Gidlow and entertainer Sophie Tucker. This is the first biography to explore Margaret Chung's remarkable and complex life.
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, 2005
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The New Rules for Blondes
Writer, comedienne, and full-time Blonde, Selena Coppock offers up adventures, misadventures, and golden-hued nuggets of wisdom in a laugh-out-loud anthem for those of us who really do have more fun.
Selena Coppock, 2013
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The Fair-Haired Alda - A Novel - In Three Volumes - Vol. II.
We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Florence Marryat, 2010
4
Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre
... Margaret Oliphant criticized what she viewed as Mary Elizabeth Braddon's excessive and pointless deployment of hair in her novels. Braddon, she said, was “the inventor of the fair-haired demon of modern fiction.” Wicked women turned into ...
Kimberly Harrison, Richard Fantina, 2006
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Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General ...
I liked the fair- haired baby. I liked the fair-haired woman too, in a way. Her air of proprietorship annoyed me ; but this would cease when I got rid of the phantasy of the dark-haired, dark-eyed, passionate woman that I called "Violet.
6
The English and their origin: A prologue to authentic ...
... to the popular theory. That theory starts with two assumptions, one of which is that the Anglo-Saxons were a fair-haired, red-haired, or flaxen-haired people ; and the other, that the English are a fair-haired, red-haired, or flaxen-haired people.
Luke Owen Pike, 1866
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The Hairdressers' journal
Of the 367 fair-haired women, however, 32 per cent, were single, while of the 369 dark-haired women only 21 "5 per cent, were single. It would thus appear that a greater proportion of fair-haired women than of dark-haired women live and die ...
8
Who Were the Greeks?
It is disconcerting therefore to find that the great Attic goddess Athena, though not in the fullest or strictest sense Olympian, was nevertheless gray-eyed from Homer's time onward, and also fair-haired for Pindar and golden for Pheidias.67 Nor ...
Sir John Linton Myres, 1930
9
The Fair-Haired Ald: A Novel...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Florence Marryat, 2012
10
Pigmentation Survey of School Children in Scotland
The girl population contains a higher proportion of the fair-haired class than the boy population, over 27 per cent, as against 25 per cent. There is a correspondingly less proportion of the medium or brown- haired class in the girl- population.
James Fowler Tocher, 1908

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FAIR-HAIRED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fair-haired is used in the context of the following news items.
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Prince George beams on baby sister Charlotte's big day
The fair-haired boy giggled out at the camera while the Duke, who was carrying him, looked fondly at his first-born. Another touching image ... «hellomagazine.com, Jul 15»
2
Iriberri is new AFP chief
Iriberri is the fair-haired boy of Gazmin, commander of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) during the term Mrs. Aquino. Gazmin has vetted all ... «Rappler, Jul 15»
3
Iain Duncan Smith like an old geezer at a disco as George Osborne …
When George spotted his fair-haired wife Frances he flashed her a lovely smile. The Chancellor's mother was placed, as ever, a long way from ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
4
Delta Rae of hope
"All Good People" wisely acknowledges his position as a fair-haired outsider but reminds us of how close we are with the recurring line: "We ... «SouthFlorida.com, Jul 15»
5
'Baby buyer' incident all the more unsettling for mum who learnt of …
She told this newspaper how a man had approached her and her fair-haired daughter, aged seven at around 7:30pm at Fond Ghadir on the ... «MaltaToday, Jul 15»
6
New AFP chief on Friday: Aquino, Gazmin ex-aides contenders
But he is the fair-haired boy of Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, commander of the PSG during Mrs Aquino's presidency who has served as ... «Rappler, Jul 15»
7
Letter: Grand County Leadership lacking on junk cleanup
Manguso, the fair-haired child of the Grand County Republican Party (a few of a group of marauders named the Grand County Conservatives) ... «Sky Hi Daily News, Jul 15»
8
Ashes 2015: How England can beat Australia - Agnew
Just because he's fair-haired and bowls a bit of leg-spin, there were comparisons to Shane Warne. The reality is that he's a serious batsman. «BBC Sport, Jul 15»
9
Golfer Greg Norman sells Boca lot at discount to Russians
The fair-haired Australian may be known on the links as the Great White Shark, but he was more like a minnow in this real-estate deal that saw ... «Miami Herald, Jul 15»
10
Our Favorite Players: Wyatt Teller
When a fair-haired fellow with a name like, say, Alistair Wellington favors the Cavs in the recruiting process, you think, “Uh, yeah, he probably ... «TechSideline.com, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
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