bald

Meanings

Adjective

• Having no hair, fur or feathers.
• Having no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head although hair may still grow on the sides and back of the head.
• Denuded of any covering.
• Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.
• Unembellished.
• Without evidence or support being provided.

Noun

• A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

Verb

• To become bald.

Origin

• From Middle English balled, ballid, bald, of uncertain origin. Probably formed from Middle English bal, balle. Compare with Old Danish bældet.
• Alternate etymology has Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌻𐌰-, Old English bǣl (both from Proto-Germanic *bēlą), Albanian balë and ball.