Usually means: Expressive music rooted in emotion.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word blues:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. blues, the blues: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Blues, blues: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blues: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blues, the blues: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blues: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blue's, Blues, blue's, blues: Wordnik
  7. blues: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Blues, blues: Wiktionary
  9. blues: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blues: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. blues: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. blues, the blues: Dictionary.com
  13. blues: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. blues: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Blue's, Blues (Bob Dylan album), Blues (Breakout album), Blues (Eric Clapton album), Blues (Jimi Hendrix album), Blues (Super Rugby), Blues (Super Rugby franchise), Blues (Super rugby franchise), Blues (dance move), Blues (disambiguation), Blues (music), Blues, The Blues (Alex Harvey album), The Blues (B.B. King album), The Blues (Johnny Hodges album), The Blues (film), The Blues (film series), The Blues (song), The Blues, The blues: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. blues: Rhymezone
  17. Blues (f), blues, blues, blues, blues (de), blues (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. THE BLUES: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. blues: Free Dictionary
  20. blues: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. blues: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. blues, the blues: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Blues (music), The Blues, blues: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Blues (music), blues, the Blues: Medical dictionary
  3. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BLUES: Acronym Finder
  2. blues: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. blues, blues, blues: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. blues: The Folk File
  3. The Blues: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See blue as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
noun:  (informal, in the singular or in the plural) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
noun:  (informal, in the singular or in the plural) The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience, or idea.
noun:  (music) A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
noun:  (music, in the singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
noun:  A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
noun:  (drugs, slang) Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets.
noun:  (informal) Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as:
noun:  (historical) The chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore blue.
noun:  (Australian rules football) Carlton Football Club.
noun:  (rugby league) New South Wales.
noun:  (soccer) Birmingham City FC.
noun:  (soccer) Everton FC.
noun:  (soccer) Chelsea FC.
noun:  (soccer) Manchester City FC.

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