Other forms: bloods
Blood is the red liquid that moves through your body. Lose blood, a blood test, blood pressure.
The compounds are everywhere in medicine: blood type, blood count, blood sugar, blood donor. Figuratively, blood means family descent — blood relative, blood is thicker than water, of royal blood — and new blood means new people brought into a group. Note in cold blood, meaning deliberately and without feeling; bad blood, meaning long-standing ill feeling; and make your blood boil.
1nounbloodThe red liquid that moves through the body.~98%
“He lost about two pints of blood before anybody found him.”
2nounfamilyFamily descent.~2%
“They are related by blood and have not spoken in years.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 11 sentences found in the wild and placed 11 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
blood is a body fluid, or descent.
Old English blod is Germanic and has no clear relatives outside the family, which is unusual for so basic a word. Latin used sanguis, which gives English sanguine, consanguinity and sangfroid, so the language has two unrelated blood vocabularies.
Middle English
blood
English, today
blood
From Middle 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”), frr blud, blödj, Blör (“blood”), stq Bloud (“blood”), West Frisian bloed (“blood”), cim pluat, pluut (“blood”), Dutch bloed (“blood”), German Blut (“blood”), German Low German Blood, Bloot (“blood”), lb Blutt (“blood”), wym błüt (“blood”), Yiddish בלוט (“blood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish blod (“blood”), Faroese and Icelandic blóð (“blood”), gme-cgo plut (“blood”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌸 (“blood”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA