blood

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
2. (countable, uncountable) A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. See blood relative, blood relation.
3. (countable, historical, uncountable) One of the four humours in the human body.
4. (countable, uncountable) The endometrial lining as it is shed in menstruation; menstrual fluid.
5. (countable, informal) A blood test or blood sample.
6. (countable, uncountable) The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
7. (countable, poetic, uncountable) The juice of anything, especially if red.
8. (countable, uncountable) Temper of mind; disposition; mood
9. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.
10. (countable, uncountable) A blood horse, one of good pedigree.
11. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Bloodshed.
12. (countable, uncountable) A friend or acquaintance, especially one who is black and male.
13. (alt-of, countable, uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Blood (“member of a certain gang”).
14. (Multicultural-London-English, UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, slang, uncountable) Alternative form of blud (“Informal address to a male.”).

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
2. (historical) To let blood (from); to bleed.
3. (transitive) To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To make eager for bloodshed or combat; to incite or enrage against.

Synonyms

lineage

parentage

line

line of descent

gore

bloodline

family

👪

origin

bloodshed

stock

descent

pedigree

blood line

ancestry

kin

profligate

rake

rakehell

kinship

rip

roue

sap

consanguinity

bleed

🩸

murder

stemma

house

🏠

human

genealogy

killing

kinfolk

kinsfolk

life-blood

lion

🦁

massacre

menses

namely

odor

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

phratry

propinquity

red

relatedness

relation

relationship

relatives

serum

slaughter

slaying

smell

👃

Translations

sang

🩸

sangre

🩸

Blut

🩸

sangue

🩸

sangue

🩸

bloed

🩸

kan

🩸

αίμα

sang

🩸

sanguis

🩸

دم

🧥

sang

xwîn

🩸

cruor

🩸

Pronounced as (IPA)

/blʌd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: blood

Inherited from Old English: blōd

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Bloud

Cognate with Western Frisian: bloed

Cognate with Dutch: bloed

Cognate with German: Blut

Cognate with Danish: -

Cognate with Swedish: -

Cognate with Norwegian: blod

Cognate with Icelandic: -

Cognate with Faroese: blóð

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-?
Proto-Germanic *blōþą
Proto-West Germanic *blōd
Old English blōd
Middle English blood
English blood
From Middle English blood, from Old English blōd, from Proto-West Germanic *blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ("to swell") + -ó- (thematic vowel) + -to (nominalizer), i.e. "that which bursts out".
Cognate with Scots blude, bluid (“blood”), North Frisian blud, blödj, Blör (“blood”), Saterland Frisian Bloud (“blood”), West Frisian bloed (“blood”), Cimbrian pluat, pluut (“blood”), Dutch bloed (“blood”), German Blut (“blood”), German Low German Blood, Bloot (“blood”), Luxembourgish Blutt (“blood”), Vilamovian błüt (“blood”), Yiddish בלוט (blut, “blood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish blod (“blood”), Faroese and Icelandic blóð (“blood”), Crimean Gothic plut (“blood”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌸 (blōþ, “blood”).

Sentences

Taking part in road traffic is potentially dangerous after donating blood .

Blood tests such as a complete blood count may show neutrophilia .

The mixture took on a reddish color , almost the color of blood .