blues

UK /bluːz/ US /bluːz/
noun 5name 5

Definitions

noun

1

A feeling of sadness or depression.

I've got the blues today.

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

2

A feeling of sadness or depression.

Your blues is just like mine.

Your blues are just like mine.

3

A feeling of sadness or depression.

I've got the lonely man's blues.

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

4

A musical form, of African-American 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.

5

A musical form, of African-American origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.

My next number is a blues in G.

name

1

Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as:

'Constantinople adopted the follies, though not the virtues of ancient Rome,' wrote Edward Gibbon, 'and the same factions which had agitated the circus raged with redoubled fury in the Hippodrome.' Gibbon's judgment was that what produced the 'redoubled fury' in the Hippodrome was senseless hooliganism, and even though the Blues and Greens could be politicized upon occasion, they had no coherent aims, religious or political. Gibbon's successors had alternative suggestions, the most persistent of which has been that the Blues were supporters of religious orthodoxy and the Greens of Monophysitism.

2

Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as:

3

Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as:

4

Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as:

5

Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as:

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