Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural A state of depression or melancholy. Often used with the.
- noun plural A style of music that evolved from southern African-American secular songs and is usually distinguished by a strong 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholoy sound from repeated used of blue notes.
- noun a state of depression.
from , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
blue . - noun informal A feeling of
sadness ordepression . - noun singular or plural, informal One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
- noun A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar structure and using the
blues scale . - noun music, always singular A musical composition following blues forms.
- noun A uniform made principally of a blue fabric.
- noun sports Any of a number of
sports teams which wear bluekit . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
blue .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state of depression
- noun a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Well-bred persons, abhorring the pedantry of the blues, are usually _anti - blues_, or _ultra-antis_.
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We may think sure it could be a blues no matter what, but our initial reaction will be to cꦡompare the so called blues to what we know as blues - IOW a rule.
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Together, Native American and African music mixed and eventually formed what we know as the blues: The foundation for the modern music of today.
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According to sources at Old Trafford, Man U reckons their title blues are down to the colour of Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar's 🍎shirt.
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And others picked up guitars and began to play a music we call the blues.
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Yea you should be able to catch stripers and blues from the shore.
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Yet the beauty of the blues is that it is one f𓆏orm of music in which artists ar♔e expected to improve with age.
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Yea you should be able to catch stripers and blues from the shore.
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