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blake¹

  • /bleɪk/

Rhymes with -eɪk

Where it comes from

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.

adjective blaker · more blake · blakest · most blake

  1. Northern England, UK, dialectal, poetic, uncommon Yellow, as butter or cheese. White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]

Blake²

  • /bleɪk/

Rhymes with -eɪk

Where it comes from

A surname derived from either Old English blæc (“black”) or from Old English blāc (“pale, fair, shining, white”), or as an anglicisation of Irish Ó Bláthmaic.

proper noun Blakes · Blayke · Blaeke

  1. countable, uncountable An English surname transferred from the nickname.
  2. countable, uncountable A surname from Irish.
  3. countable, uncountable A male given name transferred from the surname.
  4. countable, uncountable A female given name transferred from the surname.
  5. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: black, honor, cromer, jex, ebony, sable, jet, inky, dark, pitch-black, shadowy, sooty, midnight, coal, raven, dusky

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"blake." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/blake. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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blake. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/blake

Chicago

"blake." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/blake.

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@misc{blake_2026,
  title = {blake},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blake},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}