blues
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
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
Types & categories
- black music hypernym
- folk song hypernym
- boogie hyponym
Parts & wholes
- blue note part meronym
Sense 2 noun
a state of depression
he had a bad case of the blues
Types & categories
- depression hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | blue note |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | black music |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | folk song |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | boogie |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | depression |