blue
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- noun
- /blu/
:
azul
- Whether it's black, midnight blue, Navy, brown, doesn't matter.
- dark blue
- light blue
- blue in the sky
This T-shirt comes in red, blue, yellow, green and brown.
- This T-shirt comes in red, blue, yellow, green and brown.
- Rachel is wondering why electric blue, Electric blue.
- And again, like same as the blue, I love green.
Examples
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Where are you in this spinning blue marble we call Earth?
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So on the good board we've got blue, white and black.
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The color might be blue or black or red.
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Also, which color would you get sunrise blue or Midnight black?
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But it had not black, but an incredible deep blue with clusters of bright stars everywhere you looked.
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I got this crew neck blue and that's it.
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Or you can find the Robins egg blue desk of Dorothy West.
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I glimpsed its head, dazzling blue with fish scales in the pure sun.
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Her eyes were a clear aquamarine blue, her look as guileless as a fawn's.
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The sky is a bright blue on this clear day.
Synonyms
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A light bluish-green color like sea water
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A pale shade of blue like the sky on a clear day
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A deep, rich blue color darker than normal blue
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A deep blue-violet color between blue and purple
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A light blue like the clear sky on a sunny day
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A light blue like a cornflower with little green
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A blue color with a little green in it
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A color that is a mix of blue and green
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A blue color with a little purple in it
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A blue color with a little purple
A color that is a mix of blue and green
A bright greenish-blue color like a peacock's feathers
A blue color with a small red tint like the sky at dusk
Idioms
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You must choose between two options that are both bad
To start something that quickly becomes exciting or causes strong debate
Compounds
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A range of Appalachian mountains from Pennsylvania to Georgia that look blue from far away
- Specialized
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A share of a large, well-known company that is safe and pays steady dividends
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A mountain range in the eastern United States from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia
- Specialized
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A very large powerful bomb the US military uses to destroy enemy positions
- US
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A bluish crab that lives on North America's Atlantic and Gulf coasts and is eaten for its sweet meat
- Formal
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An independent group of respected experts who study a public problem and give advice
- Jargon
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An unwritten rule among police officers not to report a colleague's illegal actions to protect them from punishment
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A large bird with blue-grey feathers, long legs and a long neck that lives near water
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A type of walleye fish with bluish color that lived in the Great Lakes and is now extinct
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Bright blue electric flashes that shoot up from thundercloud tops into the upper sky
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A way to release software using two identical systems to move users to the new version
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A deep bright blue paint color first made from a stone called lapis lazuli and now often made artificially
- Formal
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A group of respected experts chosen to study an important public problem and give advice
- US
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A plant that lives for many years and has clusters of blue, star-shaped flowers in the southeastern United States
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A water plant with blue flowers that people often use in art, religion, and traditional medicine
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A musical note played a bit lower in jazz and blues to sound sad and emotional
How Blue
Surface Forms
Etymology
Blue as a noun comes from Old French bleu and the German blau, simple names for that color, so when we talk about a color we call it blue.