wikipedia|dab=blues (disambiguation)
English

Pronunciation
AHD|blo�oz
IPA|/blu�z/
SAMPA|/blu:z/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-u�z|-u�z

Noun
wikipedia|Blues|Blues (musical form)
blues

1. plural of|blue
2. 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 blues...

1. (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.

1. 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.

1. context|music|always singular A musical composition following blues forms.

#: My next number is a blues in G.

Related terms
baby blues (2)
blue
blue note
blues scale
bluesy
delta blues
eight-bar blues
twelve-bar blues

See also
i-c|musical form boogie, jazz, rock and roll, shuffle, turnaround

Translations
trans-top|musical form
Croatian: t-|hr|bluz|m
German: t-|de|Blues|m
Hebrew: ���� (bluz)
trans-mid
Swedish: t+|sv|blues|c
trans-bottom

trans-top|musical composition
German: t-|de|Blues|m
trans-mid
Swedish: t+|sv|blues|c
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rfc-trans

French: blues m (2,4,5)
Russian: бл�з m (4)

Category:Music genres

Swedish

Noun
sv-noun-unc-irreg-c|2=bluesen
blues c

1. #English|blues; a musical form
2. #English|blues; a musical composition

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