blake
Yellow, as butter or cheeseYellow, as butter or cheese.
» 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 sentencesThis is the church where Blake is buried.
Це та сама церква, у якій поховано Блейка. — deniko
Blake loved to walk in the country round London.
One of my favourite books is Australian Aboriginal Grammar by Barry Blake. It fired up my imagination about life in Australia's deserts.
Blake has been coaching the team for two years in Iten, where a culture of competition pushes his athletes.
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 |
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| Superlative | blakest / most blake Lesson |
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Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form