Soul vs Blues - What's the difference?
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(religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
* 1836 , (Hans Christian Andersen) (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), (The Little Mermaid)
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The spirit or essence of anything.
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(music) Soul music.
A person, especially as one among many.
An individual life.
English plurals
(informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
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(singular or plural, informal) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar structure and using the blues scale.
(music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
A uniform made principally of a blue fabric.
(sports) Any of a number of sports teams which wear blue kit.
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As nouns the difference between soul and blues
is that soul is the spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death while blues is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals.As verbs the difference between soul and blues
is that soul is to endue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind while blues is third-person singular of blue.As a proper noun Blues is
any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue.soul
English
(wikipedia soul)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) (the Scandinavian forms are borrowings from the Old English).Alternative forms
* sowl (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul', nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal ' soul , can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul . The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
- That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.
- Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
Derived terms
* All Souls' Day * bare one's soul * body and soul * brevity is the soul of wit * dead soul * heart and soul * neo soul * sell one's soul * soul brother * soul-destroying * soul food * soul kiss * soul mate/soulmate * soul-searching * soul-strring * souled * soulful * soulfully * soulfulness * soul music * soul patch * soul searching * soul sister * world soul (soul)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .blues
English
Noun
(-)- The painting was vibrantly colored in reds and greens and blues .
- If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen into the blues ...
- Your blues is just like mine.
- Your blues are just like mine.
- Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.
- A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues .
- My next number is a blues in G.
- ''The marched in their dress blues .