adjective · common

blake

blake · blaker · blakest

Yellow, as butter or cheeseYellow, as butter or cheese.

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/bleɪk/

» This is the church where Blake is buried.

Це та сама церква, у якій поховано Блейка.

Meaning

1 senses

(Northern England, UK, dialectal, poetic, uncommon)Yellow, as butter or cheese.

Examples

4 sentences

This is the church where Blake is buried.
Це та сама церква, у якій поховано Блейка.
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Blake loved to walk in the country round London.
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One of my favourite books is Australian Aboriginal Grammar by Barry Blake. It fired up my imagination about life in Australia's deserts.
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Blake has been coaching the team for two years in Iten, where a culture of competition pushes his athletes.
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Origin

From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English blāc (“pale, pallid, wan, livid;

From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English blāc (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”). Compare Scots bleg (“light, drab”). More at bleak.

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Forms

blaker/more blake, blakest/most blake

Comparative	blaker / more blake Lesson
Superlative	blakest / most blake Lesson

regular

Word family

1 related words

Relatedpallid

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form