blend

Definitions

1. A mixture of two or more things.
2. A word formed by combining two other words; a portmanteau word.

Equivalents

Examples

“Their music has been described as a blend of jazz and heavy metal.”

“Our department has a good blend of experienced workers and young promise⟳.”

“Blends, also known as portmanteau words, are not an original part of English. That is, none occur⟳ in Old or Middle English, nor even in Elizabethan English, with the earliest known example being the rare and now obsolete term tomaxe, a blend of tomahawk and axe.”

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