blues

• enPR: blo͞oz, IPA^(key): /bluːz/
• Rhymes: -uːz

blues

1. plural of blue

blues (uncountable)

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.

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, Mancunian) Manchester City FC.

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

blues

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blue

• Buels, bulse, lubes

Borrowed from English blues.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈblus/[1]

blues m (uncountable)

1. blues

• “blues” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from English blues.

• IPA^(key): /bluːs/, [b̥lʊəs]
• Rhymes: -ʊəs

blues c (singular definite bluesen, not used in plural form)

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

Borrowed from English blues.

blues

1. (music) blues

Borrowed from English blues.

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

blues m (plural blues)

1. blues (music)
2. blues (depression)

• coup de blues

• “blues” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• bleus

Borrowed from English blues.

blues m (invariable)

1. (music) blues

• bluse

blues m (plural blues)

1. blues (musical form)

English

blues m pl (plural only) or blues m (uncountable)

1. (music) blues

Borrowed from English blues.

blues c

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