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bald

Pronunciation: /bɔːld/

The English word “bald” has 12 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.
  2. Having little or no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head.
  3. Of animals, having areas (of fur or plumage) that are colored white, especially on the head.
  4. Of hair, nonexistent.
  5. Lacking any covering.
  6. Of a tyre, whose surface is worn away.
  7. Of a statement or account, unembellished.
  8. Of a statement, without evidence or support being provided.

noun

  1. 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. A bald person.

verb

  1. To become bald.
  2. To make bald.

Etymology

From Middle English balled, ballid, bald (“bald”), of uncertain origin. Probably formed from Middle English bal, balle (“ball, round object, knoll, head”). Compare Old Danish bældet (“bald”). An alternate etymology relates it to Old English bǣl (“fire, flame; funeral pyre”), from Proto-Germanic *bēlą. Compare Albanian balë (“white spot on the forehead”) and ballë (“forehead”).

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