Word

blues, n.
freq. cnt. 2

a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
<noun.communication> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

blues

semantic pointers

hypernym

black music, African-American music folk song, folksong, folk ballad

part meronym

blue note

hyponym

boogie, boogie-woogie

a state of depression
<noun.state>

blue devils blues megrims vapors vapours

sample sentences

"he had a bad case of the blues"

semantic pointers

hypernym

depression