| Definitions | blues
noun (wikipedia, Blues, Blues (musical form))
- (plural of, blue)
- (colloquial) A feeling of sadness or depression.
- Usage note: Often preceded by the definite article.
- 1883: w:Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island, Treasure Island
- : If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen into the ...
- (singular or plural) (colloquial) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
- Your blues is just like mine.
- Your blues are just like mine.
- A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar structure and using the blues scale.
- Usage note: Often preceded by the definite article.
- Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.
- A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues.
- (context, music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
- My next number is a blues in G.
Translations: - German: Blues(de)m
- French: blues (2,4,5)
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