noun
blues
blooz
noun
1
A feeling of sadness or low mood.
"He's had a bad case of the Monday blues all week."
2
A musical genre of African-American origin, typically built on a twelve-bar structure and a distinctive blues scale.
"She grew up listening to old blues records from the Mississippi Delta."
How to Use Blues
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishEither a low, gloomy mood, or the American musical genre that grew out of it.
Common pairings
have the blues
blues music
sing the blues
Word Forms
blues plural
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Etymology
From "blue devils," an old term for low spirits or melancholy; the musical genre takes its name from the same mood.