"bluegrass" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-us-bluegrass.ogg [US] Forms: bluegrasses [plural]
Etymology: blue + grass, from the bluish appearance of the massed grass in late Spring. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|blue|grass}} blue + grass Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} bluegrass (countable and uncountable, plural bluegrasses)
  1. Kentucky bluegrass, Poa pratensis. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Kentucky, USA Categories (lifeform): Poeae tribe grasses Translations (type of grass): veldbeemgras [neuter] (Dutch), niittynurmikka (Finnish), Wiesenrispengras [neuter] (German), ivigaq narsaviarmiu (Greenlandic), perje (Hungarian), pātītī taranui (Maori), tūtaekurī (Maori), tsinyaa tłʼoh (Navajo)
    Sense id: en-bluegrass-en-noun-N70GYkb0 Disambiguation of Kentucky, USA: 71 29 Disambiguation of Poeae tribe grasses: 67 33 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 39 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 61 39 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 48 52 Derived forms: annual bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa annua), Australian bluegrass (taxonomic: Andropogon sericeus), big bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa ampla), bulbous bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa bulbosa), California bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa fendleriana), Canada bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa compressa), English bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa compressa), fowl bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa palustris), Kentucky bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa pratensis), Merion bluegrass, mutton bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa fendleriana), Nevada bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa nevadensis), rough bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa trivialis), rough-stalked bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa trivialis), Sandberg bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa secunda), Shenendoah bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa pratensis), Texas bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa arachnifera), wood bluegrass (taxonomic: Poa nemoralis), Sandberg's bluegrass, Wheeler's bluegrass
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Audio: en-us-bluegrass.ogg [US]
Etymology: From the band Blue Grass Boys, led by Bill Monroe; bluegrass is first attested in print in reference to the genre of music in 1956. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} bluegrass (uncountable)
  1. (music, uncountable) A subgenre of country music with roots in Scots-Irish Appalachian folk music, blues, and jazz and characterized by banjos, fiddles, acoustic guitars, dobros, and mandolins; but containing no drums, electric guitars, pianos or other keyboard or wind instruments. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Music, Musical genres Derived forms: bluegrass gospel, bluegrass-jazz, bluegrass jazz, bluegrass-like, newgrass, progressive bluegrass Related terms: high lonesome sound Translations (style of country music): bluegrass [masculine] (Dutch), bluegrass (Finnish), bluegrass [masculine] (French), ბლუგრასი (blugrasi) (Georgian), Bluegrass [neuter] (German)
    Sense id: en-bluegrass-en-noun-zLzOQJm9 Disambiguation of Musical genres: 16 84 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English exocentric compounds, English karmadharaya compounds Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 48 52 Disambiguation of English exocentric compounds: 42 58 Disambiguation of English karmadharaya compounds: 37 63 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2c/En-us-bluegrass.ogg/En-us-bluegrass.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/En-us-bluegrass.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "style of country music",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bluegrass"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "style of country music",
      "word": "bluegrass"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "style of country music",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bluegrass"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "blugrasi",
      "sense": "style of country music",
      "word": "ბლუგრასი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "style of country music",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Bluegrass"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Bill Monroe"
  ],
  "word": "bluegrass"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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