blues
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/bluːz/
🇬🇧
/bluːz/
noun
R
a genre of music characterized by slow tempo, simple chord structures, and a call-and-response pattern, often with lyrics expressing sadness or melancholy
I love listening to the blues when I'm feeling down.
R
a song in the blues genre
She sang a beautiful blues that moved everyone to tears.
R
a feeling of sadness or melancholy
I've got the blues today because I didn't get the job I wanted.
translation
a genre of music characterized by slow tempo, simple chord structures, and a call-and-response pattern, often with lyrics expressing sadness or melancholy; a song in the blues genre; a feeling of sadness or melancholy
Word Forms
Plural
bluess