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Blue

proper nounnountop 1 000 in film dialogue

A surname from German. An anglicization of German Blau.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from German. An anglicization of German Blau.

  2. 2

    rareA female given name from English, typically used in conjoined names like Bonnie Blue or Blue Bell.

  3. 3

    A male nickname, occasionally used as a formal given name. (Australia) Nickname for a person with ginger hair.

Etymology

From the German surname, Americanized from Blau or its French cognate bleu.

noun

  1. 1

    A letterman at Oxford or Cambridge.

  2. 2

    historicalA member of the Royal Horse Guards (which merged with the 1st Dragoons in 1969)

    Have you heard any news / Of that chap in the Blues / Was it Prosser, or Pyecroft, or Pimm?

  3. 3

    Synonym of British Blue (“a breed of cat”).

    This Blue shows the remarkable, sleek bodyline of the breed.

Forms

plural
Blues
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).