Blues

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • noun-plural. A state of depression or melancholy. Often used with the.
  • noun-plural. A style of music that evolved from southern African-American secular songs and is usually distinguished by a strong 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first: "The blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation” ( B.B. King).
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  • n. Plural form of blue.
  • n. A feeling of sadness or depression.
  • n. One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
  • n. A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar structure and using the blues scale.
  • n. A musical composition following blues forms.
  • n. A uniform made principally of a blue fabric.
  • n. Any of a number of sports teams which wear blue kit.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blue.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. a type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholoy sound from repeated used of blue notes.
  • n. a state of depression.
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  • n. a state of depression
  • n. a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    depression   
    Cross Reference
    turnaround    boogie    shuffle    jazz    rock and roll   
    Form
    blue   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    megrims   
    Verb Stem
    blue   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
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