blaze
/bleɪz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.69 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
noun
A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
noun
A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals,[…]."
- "They sought shelter from the blaze of the sun."
- "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, / Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse / Without all hope of day!"
- "his blaze of wrath"
- "For what is glory but the blaze of fame?"
- "The campfire blazed merrily."
Etymology
From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase (“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā, from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ (“torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine, be white”). Cognate with Low German blas (“burning candle, torch, fire”), Middle High German blas (“candle, torch, flame”).