LekhoriLekhoriA mixture of two or more things.
Their music has been described as a blend of jazz and heavy metal.
A word formed by combining two other words; a portmanteau word.
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.
From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan, ġeblandan, ġeblendan or from Old Norse blanda (“to blend, mix”) (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem b...
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To be mingled or mixed.
There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.
To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
These stormes, which now his beauty blend, Shall turn to calmes.