Definitions for bald
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bald, barefacedadjective

   with no effort to conceal

   "a barefaced lie"

2. bald, bald-headed, bald-patedadjective

   lacking hair on all or most of the scalp

   "a bald pate"; "a bald-headed gentleman"

3. bald, denuded, denudateverb

   without the natural or usual covering

   "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills"

4. baldverb

   grow bald; lose hair on one's head

   "He is balding already"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. baldnoun

   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.

2. baldverb

   to become bald

3. baldadjective

   Having no hair, fur or feathers.

4. baldadjective

   Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.

5. baldadjective

   Of a statement: empirically unsupported.

6. Etymology: From balþaz, whence also Old Saxon bald, Old High German bald, Old Norse ballr.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Baldadjective

   Etymology: bal, Welch.

   1. Without hair.

   Neither shall men make themselves bald for them. Jer. xvi. 6.

   I find it remarked by Marchetti, that the cause of baldness in men is the dryness of the brain, and its shrinking from the skull; he having observed, that in bald persons, under the bald part, there was a vacuity between the skull and the brain. John Ray.

   He should imitate Cæsar, who, because his head was bald, covered that defect with laurels. Joseph Addison, Spect. №. 232.

   2. Without natural covering.

   Under an oak, whose boughs were moss’d with age,
   And high top bald with dry antiquity. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

   3. Without the usual covering.

   He is set at the upper end o’ th’ table; but they stand bald before him. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   4. Unadorned; inelegant.

   Hobbes, in the preface to his own bald translation of the Ilias, begins the praise of Homer when he should have ended it. John Dryden, Fables, Preface.

   And that, though labour’d, line must bald appear,
   That brings ungrateful musick to the ear. Thomas Creech.

   5. Stripped; naked; without dignity; without value; bare.

   What should the people do with these bald tribunes?
   On whom depending, their obedience fails
   To th’ greater bench. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   6. Bald was used by the northern nations, to signify the same as audax, bold; and is still in use. So Baldwin, and by inversion Winbald, is bold conqueror; Ethelbald, nobly bold; Eadbald, happily bold; which are of the same import as Thraseas, Thrasymachus, and Thrasybulus, &c. Edmund Gibson Camden.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bald

   Bald is a song by the English rock band The Darkness.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Baldadjective

   destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak

2. Baldadjective

   destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal

3. Baldadjective

   undisguised

4. Baldadjective

   destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean

5. Baldadjective

   destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat

6. Baldadjective

   destitute of the natural covering

7. Baldadjective

   marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bald

   bawld, adj. without hair (feathers, &c.) on the head (or on other parts of the body): bare, unadorned, destitute of literary grace: paltry, trivial: undisguised.—ns. Bald′-coot, popular name for the coot, from its pure white wide frontal plate: a monk—also Bald′icoot; Bald′-ea′gle, a common but inaccurate name for the American white-headed eagle, used as the national emblem.—adj. Bald′-faced, having white on the face, as a horse.—n. Bald′head, a person bald on the head.—adjs. Bald′-headed; Bald′ish, somewhat bald.—adv. Bald′ly.—ns. Bald′ness; Bald′pate, one destitute of hair: a kind of wild-duck.—adjs. Bald′pate, Bald′pated, destitute of hair. [Orig. 'shining,' 'white,' Ir. and Gael. bàl, 'white' spot; but perh. conn. with ball in the sense of 'rounded,' whence 'smooth,' 'hairless.']

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1. BALD

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EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bald

   without hair or other surface vestiture: see bare.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BALD

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bald is ranked #29261 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Bald surname appeared 809 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bald.
   
   87.1% or 705 total occurrences were White.
   6.4% or 52 total occurrences were Black.
   3.2% or 26 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.8% or 15 total occurrences were Asian.

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Anagrams for bald »

1. blad

How to pronounce bald?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bald in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bald in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of bald in a Sentence

1. Jerome K. Jerome:

   Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

2. The Forest Service:

   Its hard to say this, but the odds of our Big Bear bald eagle nests eggs will hatch this year are diminishing each day, the window of successful hatching is closing.

3. Jenn Christiansen:

   There’s no reason they needed that much, anbody who’s had their hair pulled knows you can feel how much is being pulled. I could tell that they had too much and that there was going to be a bald spot on my head.

4. Brett Hartl:

   It is a reality that the human population does continue to grow and we're squeezing wildlife into smaller and smaller areas to live, but in species like the bald eagle we have shown that we can live side by side as long as we take simple measures to not disturb them.

5. Michael Fletcher:

   We noticed something so we backed up, [Neil] thought it was an eagle. We looked and couldn't see anything. We checked it out on our way out -- and saw the bald eagle in the trap.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bald
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bald
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=bald
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bald
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=bald
7. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=bald
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html