Blank

See also: blank and blänk

English

Etymology
  • As a Dutch and German surname, from the adjective blank (“shining, pale, white”).
  • As an English and Jewish surname, spelling variant of Blanc, Blanck.

Proper noun

Blank

  1. A surname.
    • 1987, Latin American Research Review, page 238:
      The same preoccupation with developing a conceptual framework is evident in David Blank's Venezuela: Politics in a Petroleum Republic, a modified version of Blank's early theses.
  2. (chiefly dated) Used as an anonymous placeholder for a person's name.
    • 1922, The Saturday Review, volume 133, page 359:
      Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case.
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