Meaning

2 senses

  1. (UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable)Mixture; union.

  2. (countable, uncountable)A summer beverage prepared from the whey of churned milk, common among the inhabitants of the Shetland Islands.

Examples

27 sentences

  1. Some food is pretty bland without salt.

    deManche Gerichte schmecken ziemlich fade ohne Salz. — Manfredo

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  2. This tastes a little bit bland to me.

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  3. This soup is a bit bland. I think you should add a little more salt.

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  4. This is bland.

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  5. It's a little bland.

    ruПресновато. — marafon

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Origin

From Middle English bland, from Old English bland, blond (“blending, mixture, confusion”),

From Middle English bland, from Old English bland, blond (“blending, mixture, confusion”), from Proto-Germanic *blandą (“a mixing, mixture”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to grow turbid, dim, see badly, be blind”). Cognate with Icelandic blanda (“a mixture of liquids, especially of hot whey and water”).

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Forms

plural: blands

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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