"blues" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /bluːz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-blues.wav [US]
enPR: blo͞oz Rhymes: -uːz Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} blues
  1. plural of blue Tags: form-of, plural Form of: blue
    Sense id: en-blues-en-noun-WJVis9JG
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /bluːz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-blues.wav [US] Forms: blues [plural]
enPR: blo͞oz Rhymes: -uːz Head templates: {{en-noun|~|blues}} blues (countable and uncountable, plural blues)
  1. (usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
    (singular or plural, informal) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
    Tags: countable, informal, plural, plural-normally, singular, uncountable Categories (topical): Emotions, Sadness Synonyms: blueness
    Sense id: en-blues-en-noun-Naa5jXIB Disambiguation of Emotions: 2 15 15 15 9 9 12 10 12 Disambiguation of Sadness: 1 23 23 23 5 5 7 6 7
  2. (usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
    (singular or plural, informal) The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience or idea.
    Tags: countable, informal, plural, plural-normally, singular, uncountable Categories (topical): Emotions, Sadness Synonyms: blueness
    Sense id: en-blues-en-noun-vALohrS7 Disambiguation of Emotions: 2 15 15 15 9 9 12 10 12 Disambiguation of Sadness: 1 23 23 23 5 5 7 6 7
  3. (usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression. Tags: countable, informal, plural-normally, uncountable Categories (topical): Emotions, Sadness Synonyms: blueness
    Sense id: en-blues-en-noun-xP9-ZsvG Disambiguation of Emotions: 2 15 15 15 9 9 12 10 12 Disambiguation of Sadness: 1 23 23 23 5 5 7 6 7
  4. (music) A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Musical genres, Blues music
    Sense id: en-blues-en-noun-z0VA7ZV5 Disambiguation of Blues music: 2 3 6 1 33 33 6 8 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 7 7 2 17 17 13 16 20 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 1 4 4 2 19 19 14 16 21 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
  5. (music) A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
    (music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Music, Musical genres, Blues music Translations (musical composition): blues (Finnish), Blues [masculine] (German), puoro kōrangaranga (Maori), blues [masculine] (Polish), blues [masculine] (Portuguese), блюз (bljuz) [masculine] (Russian), blues [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-blues-en-noun-vOYb2TsW Disambiguation of Blues music: 2 3 6 1 33 33 6 8 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 7 7 2 17 17 13 16 20 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 1 4 4 2 19 19 14 16 21 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music Disambiguation of 'musical composition': 2 4 2 16 68 4 3
  6. A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Emotions
    Sense id: en-blues-en-noun-en:blue_uniform Disambiguation of Emotions: 2 15 15 15 9 9 12 10 12 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 7 7 2 17 17 13 16 20 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 1 4 4 2 19 19 14 16 21
  7. (drug slang) Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets but often laced with fentanyl that leads to overdose deaths (see opioid epidemic). Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Emotions
    Sense id: en-blues-en-noun-RwTc3qIG Disambiguation of Emotions: 2 15 15 15 9 9 12 10 12 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 7 7 2 17 17 13 16 20 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 1 4 4 2 19 19 14 16 21
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms (musical form): boogie, jazz, rock and roll, shuffle, turnaround Translations (feeling of sadness): gruaim [feminine] (Irish), malinconia [feminine] (Italian), paturnie [feminine, plural] (Italian), chandra [feminine] (Polish), tristeza [feminine] (Portuguese), murria [colloquial, feminine] (Spanish) Translations (musical form): بْلُوز (blūz) [masculine] (Arabic), بَلُوز (balūz) [masculine] (Arabic), բլյուզ (blyuz) (Armenian), блюз (bljuz) [masculine] (Belarusian), блус (blus) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 藍調 (Chinese Mandarin), 蓝调 (lándiào) (Chinese Mandarin), 布魯斯 (Chinese Mandarin), 布鲁斯 (bùlǔsī) (Chinese Mandarin), bluso (Esperanto), blues (Finnish), blues [masculine] (French), ბლუზი (bluzi) (Georgian), Blues [masculine] (German), μπλουζ (blouz) [neuter] (Greek), בלוז (bluz) [masculine] (Hebrew), ब्लूज़ (blūz) (Hindi), ブルース (burūsu) (Japanese), 블루스 (beulluseu) (Korean), блюз (blyuz) [masculine] (Kyrgyz), puoro kōrangaranga (Maori), بلوز (bluz) (Persian), blues [masculine] (Polish), blues [masculine] (Portuguese), блюз (bljuz) [masculine] (Russian), bluz [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), blues [common-gender] (Swedish), บลูส์ (bloo) (Thai), blues (Turkish), блюз (bljuz) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

Verb

IPA: /bluːz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-blues.wav [US]
enPR: blo͞oz Rhymes: -uːz Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} blues
  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of blue Tags: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Form of: blue Categories (topical): Emotions
    Sense id: en-blues-en-verb-Ing5wvhP Disambiguation of Emotions: 2 15 15 15 9 9 12 10 12 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 7 7 2 17 17 13 16 20 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 1 4 4 2 19 19 14 16 21
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Download JSON data for blues meaning in English (22.5kB)

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      "word": "have the blues"
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      "word": "vaudeville blues"
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      "word": "winter blues"
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    "English 1-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English indeclinable nouns",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verb forms",
    "Rhymes:English/uːz",
    "Rhymes:English/uːz/1 syllable",
    "en:Blues music",
    "en:Emotions",
    "en:Sadness"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Arctic blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "baby blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "blue note"
    },
    {
      "word": "blues and twos"
    },
    {
      "word": "bluesify"
    },
    {
      "word": "bluesman"
    },
    {
      "word": "blues-rock"
    },
    {
      "word": "blues scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "blueswoman"
    },
    {
      "word": "bluesy"
    },
    {
      "word": "Chicago blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "classic female blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "club blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "corona blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "country-blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "country blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "cry the blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "Delta blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "delta blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "eight-bar blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "electric blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "folk-blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "folk blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "gospel blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "gospel-blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "have the blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "hill country blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "jump blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "Piedmont blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "punk-blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "rhythm and blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "soul blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "soul-blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "summer blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "swamp blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "talking blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "tease and blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "tees and blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "Texas blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "theatre blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "Ts and blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "twelve bar blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "twelve-bar blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "vaudeville blues"
    },
    {
      "word": "winter blues"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "blues",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Catalan: blues",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Catalan: blues"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "da",
            "2": "blues",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Danish: blues",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Danish: blues"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fi",
            "2": "blues",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Finnish: blues",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Finnish: blues"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "blues",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: blues",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: blues"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "hu",
            "2": "blues",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Hungarian: blues",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Hungarian: blues"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "is",
            "2": "blús",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Icelandic: blús",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Icelandic: blús"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "blues",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: blues",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: blues"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "blues",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: blues",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: blues"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "blues",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: blues",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: blues"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sv",
            "2": "blues",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Swedish: blues",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Swedish: blues"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blues",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "2": "blues"
      },
      "expansion": "blues (countable and uncountable, plural blues)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "boogie"
    },
    {
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "jazz"
    },
    {
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "rock and roll"
    },
    {
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "shuffle"
    },
    {
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "turnaround"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Your blues is just like mine."
        },
        {
          "text": "Your blues are just like mine."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A feeling of sadness or depression.",
        "One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sadness",
          "sadness"
        ],
        [
          "depression",
          "depression"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.",
        "(singular or plural, informal) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blueness"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "informal",
        "plural",
        "plural-normally",
        "singular",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I've got the lonely man's blues."
        },
        {
          "text": "If you work here long enough, you'll have the butcher's blues just like me."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A feeling of sadness or depression.",
        "The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience or idea."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sadness",
          "sadness"
        ],
        [
          "depression",
          "depression"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.",
        "(singular or plural, informal) The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience or idea."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blueness"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "informal",
        "plural",
        "plural-normally",
        "singular",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I've got the blues today.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The blues have hit her hard, and she won't get out of bed.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A feeling of sadness or depression."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sadness",
          "sadness"
        ],
        [
          "depression",
          "depression"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blueness"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "informal",
        "plural-normally",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Musical genres"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region."
        },
        {
          "text": "A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "African-American",
          "African-American"
        ],
        [
          "eight-bar",
          "eight-bar blues"
        ],
        [
          "twelve-bar blues",
          "twelve-bar blues"
        ],
        [
          "blues scale",
          "blues scale"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Music",
        "en:Musical genres"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My next number is a blues in G."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.",
        "A musical composition following blues forms."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "African-American",
          "African-American"
        ],
        [
          "eight-bar",
          "eight-bar blues"
        ],
        [
          "twelve-bar blues",
          "twelve-bar blues"
        ],
        [
          "blues scale",
          "blues scale"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "always singular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.",
        "(music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English links with manual fragments",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They marched in their dress blues."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Jason Isbell, Dress Blues",
          "text": "You never planned on the bombs in the sand\nOr sleeping in your dress blues.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "uniform",
          "uniform#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "full dress",
          "full dress#English"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:blue uniform"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets but often laced with fentanyl that leads to overdose deaths (see opioid epidemic)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "blue",
          "blue"
        ],
        [
          "pill",
          "pill"
        ],
        [
          "fentanyl",
          "fentanyl"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "drug slang",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(drug slang) Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets but often laced with fentanyl that leads to overdose deaths (see opioid epidemic)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bluːz/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːz"
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "blo͞oz"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "feeling of sadness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gruaim"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "feeling of sadness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "malinconia"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "feeling of sadness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "paturnie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "feeling of sadness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "chandra"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "feeling of sadness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tristeza"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "feeling of sadness",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "murria"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "blūz",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "بْلُوز"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "balūz",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "بَلُوز"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "blyuz",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "բլյուզ"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "bljuz",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "блюз"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "blus",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "блус"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "藍調"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lándiào",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "蓝调"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "布魯斯"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bùlǔsī",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "布鲁斯"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "bluso"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "blues"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blues"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "bluzi",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "ბლუზი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Blues"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "blouz",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "μπλουζ"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "bluz",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "בלוז"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "blūz",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "ब्लूज़"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "burūsu",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "ブルース"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "beulluseu",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "블루스"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "blyuz",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "блюз"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "puoro kōrangaranga"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "bluz",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "بلوز"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blues"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blues"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bljuz",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "блюз"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bluz"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "blues"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "bloo",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "บลูส์"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "word": "blues"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bljuz",
      "sense": "musical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "блюз"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "musical composition",
      "word": "blues"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "musical composition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Blues"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "musical composition",
      "word": "puoro kōrangaranga"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "musical composition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blues"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "musical composition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blues"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bljuz",
      "sense": "musical composition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "блюз"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "musical composition",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "blues"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Blues",
    "blues (disambiguation)"
  ],
  "word": "blues"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verb forms",
    "Rhymes:English/uːz",
    "Rhymes:English/uːz/1 syllable",
    "en:Blues music",
    "en:Emotions",
    "en:Sadness"
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      ],
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}

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