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English
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]blues
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]blues (countable and uncountable, plural blues)
- (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 […]
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
- My next number is a blues in G.
- A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
- 2007, Jason Isbell, Dress Blues:
- You never planned on the bombs in the sand
Or sleeping in your dress blues.
- (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).
Derived terms
[edit]- Arctic blues
- baby blues
- blue note
- blues and twos
- blueshead
- bluesify
- bluesish
- blueslike
- bluesman
- blues-rock
- blues scale
- bluester
- blueswoman
- bluesy
- Chicago blues
- classic female blues
- club blues
- corona blues
- country-blues
- country blues
- cry the blues
- Delta blues
- delta blues
- eight-bar blues
- electric blues
- folk-blues
- folk blues
- gospel blues
- gospel-blues
- have the blues
- hill country blues
- jump blues
- Piedmont blues
- preblues
- punk-blues
- rhythm and blues
- soul blues
- soul-blues
- summer blues
- swamp blues
- talking blues
- tease and blues
- tees and blues
- Texas blues
- theatre blues
- Ts and blues
- twelve-bar blues
- twelve bar blues
- vaudeville blues
- winter blues
Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]feeling of sadness
musical form
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musical composition
See also
[edit]- (musical form): boogie, jazz, rock and roll, shuffle, turnaround
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]blues
- third-person singular simple present indicative of blue
Anagrams
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[edit]Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]blues m (uncountable)
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “blues” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Danish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]blues c (singular definite bluesen, not used in plural form)
Further reading
[edit]- “blues” in Den Danske Ordbog
Finnish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]blues
Declension
[edit]Inflection of blues (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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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. |
Derived terms
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Further reading
[edit]- “blues”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (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
French
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[edit]Noun
[edit]blues m (plural blues)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “blues”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Hungarian
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]blues (plural bluesok)
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- 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)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English blues.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]blues m (invariable)
References
[edit]- ^ blues in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
[edit]- blues in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English blues.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]blues m inan
- (uncountable) blues (style of music)
- (countable) blues (musical composition)
Declension
[edit]Declension of blues
Derived terms
[edit]adjective
Related terms
[edit]nouns
verbs
- czuć bluesa impf
- poczuć bluesa pf
Further reading
[edit]- blues in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- blues in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English blues.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]blues m pl (plural only)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “blues”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]blues n (plural bluesuri)
Declension
[edit]Declension of blues
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) blues | bluesul | (niște) bluesuri | bluesurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) blues | bluesului | (unor) bluesuri | bluesurilor |
vocative | bluesule | bluesurilor |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English blues.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]blues m pl (plural only) or blues m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “blues”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English blues.
Noun
[edit]blues c
Declension
[edit]Declension of blues | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | blues | bluesen | — | — |
Genitive | blues | bluesens | — | — |
Further reading
[edit]- blues in Svensk ordbok.
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