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blues
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: blo?oz, IPA(key): /blu?z/
- Rhymes: -u?z
Etymology 1
Noun
blues
- plural of blue
Etymology 2
Noun
blues (countable and uncountable, plural blues)
- (usually in the plural, informal) 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.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen into 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.
- The 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.
- (sports) Any of a number of sports teams which wear blue kit.
- (Australian rules football) Carlton Football Club.
- (rugby league) New South Wales.
- (soccer, Birmingham) Birmingham City FC.
- (soccer, Liverpudlian) Everton FC.
- (soccer, London) Chelsea FC.
- (soccer, Manchester) Manchester City FC.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
See also
- (musical form): boogie, jazz, rock and roll, shuffle, turnaround
Etymology 3
Verb
blues
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blue
Anagrams
- Buels, bulse, lubes
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from English blues.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?blus/
Noun
blues m (uncountable)
- blues
Further reading
- “blues” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
References
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English blues.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blu?s/, [b?l??s]
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
blues c (singular definite bluesen, not used in plural form)
- (music) blues; a musical form
- (music) blues; a musical composition
Further reading
- “blues” in Den Danske Ordbog
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English blues.
Noun
blues
- (music) blues
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English blues.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bluz/
- Rhymes: -uz
- Homophones: blouse, blousent, blouses
Noun
blues m (plural blues)
- blues (music)
- blues (depression)
Derived terms
- coup de blues
Further reading
- “blues” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- bleus
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English blues.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?blu?z]
- Hyphenation: blues
- Homophone: blúz
- Rhymes: -u?z
Noun
blues (plural bluesok)
- (music) blues
Declension
Derived terms
- blueszene
- blueszenekar
Further reading
- 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 2021)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English blues.
Noun
blues m (invariable)
- (music) blues
Anagrams
- bluse
Further reading
- blues in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
Etymology
From English blues.
Noun
blues m (plural blues)
- blues (musical form)
Further reading
- “blues” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English blues.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?blus/, [?blus]
Noun
blues m pl (plural only) or blues m (uncountable)
- (music) blues
Further reading
- “blues” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English blues.
Noun
blues c
- blues; a musical form
- blues; a musical composition
Declension
Further reading
- blues in Svensk ordbok.
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americana
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?.m?.?i?ka.n?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /a.me.?i?ka.na/
Adjective
americana
- feminine singular of americà
Italian
Adjective
americana f sg
- feminine singular of americano
Noun
americana f (plural americane, masculine americano)
- female equivalent of americano
- (inhabitant or native of Americas or of the United States) American woman
- Synonym: statunitense
Latin
Pronunciation
- americ?na: (Classical) IPA(key): /a.me.ri?ka?.na/, [äm????kä?nä]
- americ?na: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.me.ri?ka.na/, [?m??i?k??n?]
- americ?n?: (Classical) IPA(key): /a.me.ri?ka?.na?/, [äm????kä?nä?]
- americ?n?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.me.ri?ka.na/, [?m??i?k??n?]
Adjective
americ?na
- inflection of americ?nus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Adjective
americ?n?
- ablative feminine singular of americ?nus
Occitan
Pronunciation
Adjective
americana
- feminine singular of american
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.?me.?i.?k?.n?/
Adjective
americana
- feminine singular of americano
Noun
americana f (plural americanas)
- female equivalent of americano
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ame?i?kana/, [a.me.?i?ka.na]
Noun
americana f (plural americanas)
- female equivalent of americano
- (fashion) a cloth jacket with lapels and buttons, reaching below the hip
Adjective
americana
- feminine singular of americano
Descendants
- ? Cebuano: amerikana (“coat; jacket”)
- ? Tagalog: amerikana (“coat; jacket”)
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