blake

/bleɪk/

name 5adj 1

Collocations

ADJ.

identical, loved, yellow

The loved Blake painting hung prominently in the museum's main gallery for decades.

BLAKE + NOUN

an', marygowds, paigle

The children picked blake an' wildflowers in the meadow during their spring walk.

PREP.

up, with

The old paint started to blake up on the wooden fence after years of sun exposure.

ADV.

tragically

The old painting was tragically blake after years of exposure to harsh sunlight.

Definitions

adj

Yellow, as butter or cheese.

White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]

[…] the E. blake (identical with AS. blac, G. bleich, pale) is provincially used in the sense of yellow. As blake as a paigle, as yellow as a cowslip.

name

A surname.

A unisex given name.

An unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States.

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Example Bank

White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]

Wiktionary

[…] the E. blake (identical with AS. blac, G. bleich, pale) is provincially used in the sense of yellow. As blake as a paigle, as yellow as a cowslip.

Wiktionary

Miss Lizzie's ower dark for my fancy. I mind nowt aboot your dark lasses - as blake as marygowds an' as black as corbies.

Wiktionary

Blake loved to walk in the country round London.

Tatoeba · #34103

This is the church where Blake is buried.

Tatoeba · #56300

Sir Peter Blake was tragically killed by pirates on the Amazon river in 2001 as he was on a mission to monitor environment change.

Tatoeba · #825043

Usage Notes

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In some senses, blake is marked as UK, poetic. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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