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blue


Definition: Meaning of, blue in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / bluː /

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blue bluer bluest
  1. having the colour of the sky or the sea on a fine day [↪  navy, navy blue]
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  2. [not before noun] informal sad and without hope [=  depressed]
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  3. informal blue jokes, stories etc are about sex, in a way that might offend some people
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  4. argue/talk etc till you're blue in the face informal to argue, talk etc about something a lot, but without achieving what you want
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  5. blue with cold especially British English someone who is blue with cold looks extremely cold
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  6. go blue British English if someone goes blue, their skin becomes blue because they are cold or cannot breathe properly
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  7. talk a blue streak American English informal to talk very quickly without stopping
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blue blues
  1. [uncountable and countable] the colour of the sky or the sea on a fine day
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  2. blues [uncountable] also the blues a slow sad style of music that came from the southern US
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  3. the blues [plural] informal feelings of sadness
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  4. out of the blue informal if something happens out of the blue, it is very unexpected
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  5. [countable] Blue British English someone who has represented Oxford or Cambridge University at a sport, or the title given to such a person
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  6. the blue literary the sea or the sky
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blue used in phrases

  • Bavarian blue (noun)
    1. blue cheese of Bavaria
  • Big Blue
    1. an informal name for the computer company IBM
  • Blue Birds
    1. a former organization in the US for young girls who met to play games and learn practical skills
  • Blue Cross
    1. an American medical insurance company
  • Blue Danube, The
    1. the title of an extremely popular WALTZ (= a type of music for dancing to), written by Johann STRAUSS in 1866
  • Blue Mountain tea (noun)
    1. goldenrod of eastern America having aromatic leaves from which a medicinal tea is made
  • Blue Nile
    1. the Blue Nile one of the two rivers that form the River Nile. It starts in Ethiopia in East Africa, and flows north to Khartoum in Sudan, where it joins the White Nile.
  • Blue Peter
    1. a children's programme that has been on British television since the late 1950s. It is known for encouraging children to collect money or things for people who are poor or sick, and for showing them how to do and make useful things.
  • Blue Ridge (noun)
    1. a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia
  • Blue Ridge Mountains
    1. the Blue Ridge Mountains the part of the APPALACHIANS (= a group of mountains in the eastern US) that goes from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia
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