blues

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• enPR: blo͞oz, IPA: /bluːz/, X-SAMPA: /blu:z/
• Rhymes: -uːz

Noun

Wikipedia blues (uncountable)

1. Plural form of blue

   The painting was vibrantly colored in reds and greens and blues.

2. (informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen into the blues...

3. (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.

4. A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar 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.

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

   My next number is a blues in G.

6. A uniform made principally of a blue fabric.

   The marched in their dress blues.

7. (sports) Any of a number of sports teams which wear blue kit.
   1. (Australian rules football) Carlton Football Club.
   2. (soccer, Birmingham) Birmingham City FC.
   3. (soccer, Liverpudlian) Everton FC.
   4. (soccer, London) Chelsea FC.
   5. (soccer, Manchester) Manchester City FC.

Derived terms

terms derived from blues

baby blues blue note blues-rock blues scale bluesy

cry the blues delta blues eight-bar blues twelve-bar blues

See also

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

Translations

musical form

• Arabic: بلوز (ar) (blūz, balūz) m
• Armenian: բլյուզ (hy) (blyuz) 
• Belarusian: блюз (be) (bljuz) m 
• Bulgarian: блус (bg) (blus) m 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藍調 (cmn), 蓝调 (cmn) (lándiào), 布魯斯 (cmn), 布鲁斯 (cmn) (bùlǔsī)

• French: blues (fr) m
• Georgian: ბლუზი (ka) (bluzi) 
• German: Blues (de) m
• Greek: μπλουζ (el) (bluz) n 
• Hebrew: בלוז (he) (bluz) m

• Hindi: ब्लूज़ (hi) (blūz)
• Japanese: ブルース (ja) (burūsu)
• Korean: 블루스 (ko) (beulluseu)
• Persian: بلوز (fa) (bluz)
• Russian: блюз (ru) (bljuz) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: bluz (sh) m
• Swedish: blues (sv) c
• Thai: บลูส์ (th) (bloo)
• Turkish: blues (tr)
• Ukrainian: блюз (uk) (bljuz) m 

musical composition

• German: Blues (de) m
• Russian: блюз (ru) (bljuz) m 

• Swedish: blues (sv) c

feeling of sadness

• Italian: malinconia (it) f, paturnie (it) f pl

Verb

blues

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blue.

Anagrams

• lubes

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Danish

Etymology

From English blues.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bluːs/, [b̥lʊəs]
• Rhymes: -ʊəs

Noun

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

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

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowing from English blues.

Noun

blues

1. (music) blues

Declension

Declension of blues (type risti) singular plural nominative blues bluesit genitive bluesin bluesien partitive bluesia blueseja accusative blues bluesin bluesit inessive bluesissa blueseissa elative bluesista blueseista illative bluesiin blueseihin adessive bluesilla blueseilla ablative bluesilta blueseilta allative bluesille blueseille essive bluesina blueseina translative bluesiksi blueseiksi instructive – bluesein abessive bluesitta blueseitta comitative – blueseineen

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from English blues.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bluz/
• Rhymes: -uz
• Homophones: blouse, blousent, blouses

Noun

blues m (plural blues)

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

Derived terms

• coup de blues

Anagrams

• bleus

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

Borrowing from English blues.

Noun

blues m (invariable)

1. (music) blues

Anagrams

• bluse

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowing from English blues.

Noun

blues c

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

Declension

Declension of blues

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	blues	bluesen
genitive	blues	bluesens