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bald
/bɔld/
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What does bald mean?
adjective
- Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.
- Having little or no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head.
- Of animals, having areas (of fur or plumage) that are colored white, especially on the head.
More meanings (10)
adjective
- Of hair, nonexistent.
- (figuratively) Lacking any covering.
- (figuratively) Of a tyre, whose surface is worn away.
- (figuratively) Of a statement or account, unembellished.
- (figuratively) Of a statement, without evidence or support being provided.
noun
- A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
- A bald person.
verb
- To become bald.
- To make bald.
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/bɔld/
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Mountains whose sides were flushed with red, but whose crowns were bald, rose as a pinnacle, half-concealing another pinnacle behind it.
His bald head had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze upon the ashes on his hearth.
More book examples (2)
"Titania, you run and get your fur. Roger, go and find your cap. With your bald head, you ought to know better!"
He stared with an almost comical seriousness at his bald forehead, and pointed to a three-cornered cicatrice, long healed, but still discernible.