blues

• enPR: blo͞oz, IPA^(key): /bluːz/

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• Rhymes: -uːz

blues

1. plural of blue

blues (countable and uncountable, plural blues)

1. (usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.

   Synonym: blueness

   I've got the blues today.

   The blues have hit her hard, and she won't get out of bed.

   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen in the blues […]

   1. (singular or plural, informal) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.

      Your blues is just like mine.

      Your blues are just like mine.

   2. (singular or plural, informal) The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience or idea.

      I've got the lonely man's blues.

      If you work here long enough, you'll have the butcher's blues just like me.

2. (music) A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.

   Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.

   A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues.

   1. (music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms.

      My next number is a blues in G.

3. A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.

   Coordinate terms: camos, fatigues, greens, khakis

   They marched in their dress blues.

   • 2007, Jason Isbell, Dress Blues:

     You never planned on the bombs in the sand
     Or sleeping in your dress blues.

4. (drug slang) Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets but often laced with fentanyl that leads to overdose deaths (see opioid epidemic).

• (musical form): boogie, jazz, rock and roll, shuffle, turnaround

blues

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of blue

• Buels, bulse, lubes

Borrowed from English blues.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈblus][1]

blues m (uncountable)

1. blues

• “blues” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from English blues.

• IPA^(key): /bluːs/, [b̥lʊəs]
• Rhymes: -ʊəs

blues c (singular definite bluesen, not used in plural form)

1. (music) blues; a musical form
2. (music) blues; a musical composition

• “blues” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English blues.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblyːs/, [ˈblyːs̠]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbluːs/, [ˈbluːs̠]

blues

1. (music) blues

• “blues”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Borrowed from English blues.

• IPA^(key): /bluz/

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• Rhymes: -uz
• Homophones: blouse, blousent, blouses

blues m (plural blues)

1. blues (music)
2. blues (depression)

• coup de blues

• “blues”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• bleus

Borrowed from English blues.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbluːz]
• Hyphenation: blues

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• Homophone: blúz
• Rhymes: -uːz

blues (plural bluesok)

1. (music) blues

• blueszene
• blueszenekar

• blues in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Unadapted borrowing from English blues.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbluz/[1]
• Rhymes: -uz
• Hyphenation: blùes

blues m (invariable)

1. (music) blues

• blues in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• bluse

Unadapted borrowing from English blues.

• IPA^(key): /blus/

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• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: blues
• Homophone: bluz

blues m inan

1. (uncountable) blues (style of music)
2. (countable) blues (musical composition)

• blues in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• blues in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English blues.

blues m pl (plural only)

1. (music) blues (a style guitar music of African American origin)
2. (music) blues (a blues composition)

• bluseiro / blueseiro

• bluesman

• “blues” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from English blues.

blues n (plural bluesuri)

1. (music) blues

Unadapted borrowing from English blues.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblus/ [ˈblus]
• Rhymes: -us

blues m pl (plural only) or blues m (uncountable)

1. (music) blues

• “blues”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Unadapted borrowing from English blues.

blues c

1. blues; a musical form
2. blues; a musical composition

• blues in Svensk ordbok.