blues

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • enPR: blo͞oz, IPA(key): /bluːz/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːz

Etymology 1

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Noun

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blues

  1. plural of blue

Etymology 2

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Noun

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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.
    1. (informal, in the singular or in the plural) 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. (informal, in the singular or in the plural) 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.
  3. (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.
    2. (music, in the singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
      My next number is a blues in G.
  5. 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.
  6. (drug slang) Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets.
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • → Catalan: blues
  • → Danish: blues
  • → Finnish: blues
  • → French: blues
  • → Hungarian: blues
  • → Icelandic: blús
  • → Italian: blues
  • → Portuguese: blues
  • → Spanish: blues
  • → Swedish: blues
Translations
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Etymology 3

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Verb

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blues

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of blue

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English blues.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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blues m (uncountable)

  1. (music) blues (musical genre of African American origin)

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Danish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English blues.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

  1. (music) blues (musical genre of African American origin)
  2. (music) blues (a blues composition)

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English blues.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbluːs/, [ˈbluːs̠]
  • IPA(key): /ˈblyːs/, [ˈblyːs̠]
  • Rhymes: -uːs
  • Hyphenation(key): blues

Noun

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blues

  1. (music) blues (musical genre of African American origin)
  2. (music) blues (a blues composition)

Declension

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Inflection of blues (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative blues bluesit
genitive bluesin bluesien
partitive bluesia blueseja
illative bluesiin blueseihin
singular plural
nominative blues bluesit
accusative nom. blues bluesit
gen. bluesin
genitive bluesin bluesien
partitive bluesia blueseja
inessive bluesissa blueseissa
elative bluesista blueseista
illative bluesiin blueseihin
adessive bluesilla blueseilla
ablative bluesilta blueseilta
allative bluesille blueseille
essive bluesina blueseina
translative bluesiksi blueseiksi
abessive bluesitta blueseitta
instructive — bluesein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of blues (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative bluesini bluesini
accusative nom. bluesini bluesini
gen. bluesini
genitive bluesini bluesieni
partitive bluesiani bluesejani
inessive bluesissani blueseissani
elative bluesistani blueseistani
illative bluesiini blueseihini
adessive bluesillani blueseillani
ablative bluesiltani blueseiltani
allative bluesilleni blueseilleni
essive bluesinani blueseinani
translative bluesikseni blueseikseni
abessive bluesittani blueseittani
instructive — —
comitative — blueseineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative bluesisi bluesisi
accusative nom. bluesisi bluesisi
gen. bluesisi
genitive bluesisi bluesiesi
partitive bluesiasi bluesejasi
inessive bluesissasi blueseissasi
elative bluesistasi blueseistasi
illative bluesiisi blueseihisi
adessive bluesillasi blueseillasi
ablative bluesiltasi blueseiltasi
allative bluesillesi blueseillesi
essive bluesinasi blueseinasi
translative bluesiksesi blueseiksesi
abessive bluesittasi blueseittasi
instructive — —
comitative — blueseinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative bluesimme bluesimme
accusative nom. bluesimme bluesimme
gen. bluesimme
genitive bluesimme bluesiemme
partitive bluesiamme bluesejamme
inessive bluesissamme blueseissamme
elative bluesistamme blueseistamme
illative bluesiimme blueseihimme
adessive bluesillamme blueseillamme
ablative bluesiltamme blueseiltamme
allative bluesillemme blueseillemme
essive bluesinamme blueseinamme
translative bluesiksemme blueseiksemme
abessive bluesittamme blueseittamme
instructive — —
comitative — blueseinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative bluesinne bluesinne
accusative nom. bluesinne bluesinne
gen. bluesinne
genitive bluesinne bluesienne
partitive bluesianne bluesejanne
inessive bluesissanne blueseissanne
elative bluesistanne blueseistanne
illative bluesiinne blueseihinne
adessive bluesillanne blueseillanne
ablative bluesiltanne blueseiltanne
allative bluesillenne blueseillenne
essive bluesinanne blueseinanne
translative bluesiksenne blueseiksenne
abessive bluesittanne blueseittanne
instructive — —
comitative — blueseinenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative bluesinsa bluesinsa
accusative nom. bluesinsa bluesinsa
gen. bluesinsa
genitive bluesinsa bluesiensa
partitive bluesiaan
bluesiansa 		bluesejaan
bluesejansa
inessive bluesissaan
bluesissansa 		blueseissaan
blueseissansa
elative bluesistaan
bluesistansa 		blueseistaan
blueseistansa
illative bluesiinsa blueseihinsa
adessive bluesillaan
bluesillansa 		blueseillaan
blueseillansa
ablative bluesiltaan
bluesiltansa 		blueseiltaan
blueseiltansa
allative bluesilleen
bluesillensa 		blueseilleen
blueseillensa
essive bluesinaan
bluesinansa 		blueseinaan
blueseinansa
translative bluesikseen
bluesiksensa 		blueseikseen
blueseiksensa
abessive bluesittaan
bluesittansa 		blueseittaan
blueseittansa
instructive — —
comitative — blueseineen
blueseinensa

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Further reading

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French

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English blues.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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blues m (plural blues)

  1. blues (depression)
  2. (music) blues (musical genre of African American origin)
  3. (music) blues (a blues composition)

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English blues.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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blues (plural bluesok)

  1. (music) blues (musical genre of African American origin)
  2. (music) blues (a blues composition)

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative blues bluesok
accusative bluest bluesokat
dative bluesnak bluesoknak
instrumental blueszal bluesokkal
causal-final bluesért bluesokért
translative blueszá bluesokká
terminative bluesig bluesokig
essive-formal bluesként bluesokként
essive-modal — —
inessive bluesban bluesokban
superessive blueson bluesokon
adessive bluesnál bluesoknál
illative bluesba bluesokba
sublative bluesra bluesokra
allative blueshoz bluesokhoz
elative bluesból bluesokból
delative bluesról bluesokról
ablative bluestól bluesoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		bluesé bluesoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		blueséi bluesokéi
Possessive forms of blues
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. bluesom bluesaim
2nd person sing. bluesod bluesaid
3rd person sing. bluesa bluesai
1st person plural bluesunk bluesaink
2nd person plural bluesotok bluesaitok
3rd person plural bluesuk bluesaik

Derived terms

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Further reading

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

Italian

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Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English blues.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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blues m (invariable)

  1. (music) blues (musical genre of African American origin)
  2. (music) blues (a blues composition)

References

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  1. ^ blues in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English blues.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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blues m inan

  1. (music) blues (musical genre of African American origin)
  2. (music) blues (a blues composition)

Declension

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Declension of blues
singular plural
nominative blues bluesy
genitive bluesa bluesów
dative bluesowi bluesom
accusative bluesa bluesy
instrumental bluesem bluesami
locative bluesie bluesach
vocative bluesie bluesy

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adjective
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verbs

Further reading

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

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English blues.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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blues m pl (plural only)

  1. (music) blues (a musical genre of African American origin)
  2. (music) blues (a blues composition)

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English blues.

Noun

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blues n (plural bluesuri)

  1. (music) blues (a musical genre of African American origin)
  2. (music) blues (a blues composition)

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative blues bluesul bluesuri bluesurile
genitive-dative blues bluesului bluesuri bluesurilor
vocative bluesule bluesurilor

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English blues.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

  1. (music) blues (a musical genre of African American origin)
  2. (music) blues (a blues composition)

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English blues.

Noun

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blues c

  1. (music) blues (a musical genre of African American origin)
  2. (music) blues (a blues composition)

Declension

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Declension of blues
nominative genitive
singular indefinite blues blues
definite bluesen bluesens
plural indefinite — —
definite — —

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