different between spirituals vs blues

English

Noun

spirituals

1. plural of spiritual

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: blo?oz, IPA^(key): /blu?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z

Etymology 1

Noun

blues

1. plural of blue

Etymology 2

Noun

blues (countable and uncountable, plural blues)

1. (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...

   1. (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.

   2. (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.

2. (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.

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

      My next number is a blues in G.

3. 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.

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

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

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

Etymology 3

Verb

blues

1. 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)

1. 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)

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

Further reading

• “blues” in Den Danske Ordbog

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English blues.

Noun

blues

1. (music) blues

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English blues.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bluz/
• Rhymes: -uz
• Homophones: blouse, blousent, blouses

Noun

blues m (plural blues)

1. blues (music)
2. 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)

1. (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)

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. (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

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

Declension

Further reading

• blues in Svensk ordbok.