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blue
/bluː/
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🇨🇦 French (Canada): bleu(e)
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Definition

🇬🇧 English
adjective

The colour of the sky on a clear day and of deep water.

Définition

🇨🇦 French (Canada)

La couleur bleue.

Grammar Notes

🇬🇧 English

Adjective. Used before nouns: 'a blue sky', or after verbs: 'the sky is blue'. Common collocations: blue eyes, sky blue, navy blue, blue jeans, out of the blue (meaning unexpected).

Cultural Notes

Blue is one of the most popular colours in the world and is often associated with trust, calm, and sadness. In English, feeling 'blue' means feeling sad. 'Blueprint' originally referred to a type of technical drawing.

Example Sentences

The woman has blue hair.

"The woman has blue hair."

🇨🇦 "La femme a les cheveux bleus."

My credit card is blue.

"My credit card is blue."

🇨🇦 "Ma carte de crédit est bleue."

Fill in the Blank 🇬🇧 English

The woman has ___ hair.

Practice Quiz

1. The sky is ___.
2. 'Out of the blue' means:

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