All English words - page 637

Meanings of Blue:

adjective

Of a colour intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or sea on a sunny day.

Usage examples:

The clear blue sky

noun

Blue colour or pigment.

Usage examples:

She was dressed in blue

verb

A person who has represented cambridge university (a cambridge blue ) or oxford university (an oxford blue ) at a particular sport in a match between the two universities.

Usage examples:

A flyweight boxing blue

Meanings of Blue eyed boy:

noun

A person highly regarded by someone and treated with special favour.

Usage examples:

The problem that managers may favour their blue-eyed boys

Meanings of Blue-blooded:

adjective

A blue-blooded person has been born into a family that belongs to the highest social class.

Meanings of Blue-collar:

adjective

Relating to people who do physical work rather than mental work, and who usually do not work in an office

Usage examples:

Blue-collar workers.

Meanings of Blue-jeans:

plural noun

Pants made of blue denim (= strong, cotton cloth), usually worn on informal occasions

Meanings of Blue-on-blue:

adjective

Relating to an attack in which soldiers, etc. are injured or killed by their own army or by soldiers on the same side as them

Usage examples:

The number of blue-on-blue deaths has risen steadily during the present campaign.

phrase

Denoting or relating to an attack made by one's own side that accidentally harms one's own forces.

Usage examples:

Blue-on-blue incidents

Meanings of Blue-pencil:

noun

If a person goes over a piece of writing with a blue pencil, they remove or change some of the words to improve it or make it acceptable.

Meanings of Blue-sky:

adjective

Ways of thinking about a subject or dealing with a problem that are new and original but may not always be practical

Usage examples:

What we need at the moment is specialist knowledge and implementation rather than blue-sky thinking.

Meanings of Blueback:

noun

A bird or fish, especially a trout or a sockeye salmon, having a bluish back.

Usage examples:

Waters up on the appalachian trail to the south hold sunapee trout - a rare cousin of the blueback …

Meanings of Bluebeard:

proper noun

A character in a tale by charles perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. local tradition in brittany identifies him with gilles de rais (c.1400–40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him).

noun

A man who kills women or treats them in a cruel and controlling manner.

Usage examples:

You seem to imply i'm some sort of bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated

Meanings of Bluebell:

noun

A european woodland plant of the lily family that produces clusters of blue bell-shaped flowers in spring.

Usage examples:

Daffodils, wild hyacinths and tulips, snowdrops, bluebells, daisies and buttercups littered the ear…

Meanings of Bluebells:

noun

A european woodland plant of the lily family that produces clusters of blue bell-shaped flowers in spring.

Usage examples:

Daffodils, wild hyacinths and tulips, snowdrops, bluebells, daisies and buttercups littered the ear…

Meanings of Blueberries:

noun

A small sweet blue-black edible berry which grows in clusters on north american shrubs related to the bilberry.

Usage examples:

Sweet cherries, blueberries, and strawberries also contain anthocyanins.

Meanings of Blueberry:

noun

A small sweet blue-black edible berry which grows in clusters on north american shrubs related to the bilberry.

Usage examples:

Sweet cherries, blueberries, and strawberries also contain anthocyanins.

Meanings of Bluebill:

noun

A large african waxbill with a stout metallic blue bill and red and black plumage.

Meanings of Bluebills:

noun

A large african waxbill with a stout metallic blue bill and red and black plumage.

Meanings of Bluebird:

noun

An american songbird of the thrush family, the male of which has a blue head, back, and wings.

Usage examples:

Woodpeckers, screech owls, chickadees, nuthatches, bluebirds, tree swallows and some flycatchers ne…

adjective

Denoting or relating to a period of time characterized by sunny, cloudless weather, typically after a night of snowfall.

Usage examples:

On beautiful bluebird days the girls rode snowmobiles

Meanings of Bluebirds:

noun

An american songbird of the thrush family, the male of which has a blue head, back, and wings.

Usage examples:

Woodpeckers, screech owls, chickadees, nuthatches, bluebirds, tree swallows and some flycatchers ne…

adjective

Denoting or relating to a period of time characterized by sunny, cloudless weather, typically after a night of snowfall.

Usage examples:

On beautiful bluebird days the girls rode snowmobiles

Meanings of Blueblood:

noun

Noble birth.

Usage examples:

Blue blood is no guarantee of any particular merit, competence, or expertise

Meanings of Bluebonnet:

noun

A pale grey-brown australian parrot with a deep blue face and variously coloured wings, tail, and belly.

Meanings of Bluebonnets:

noun

A pale grey-brown australian parrot with a deep blue face and variously coloured wings, tail, and belly.

Meanings of Bluebottle:

noun

A common blowfly with a metallic-blue body, the female of which often comes into houses searching for a suitable food source on which to lay her eggs.

Usage examples:

Blowflies, such as greenbottles and bluebottles, are attracted to your rabbit and its housing by th…

Meanings of Bluebottles:

noun

A common blowfly with a metallic-blue body, the female of which often comes into houses searching for a suitable food source on which to lay her eggs.

Usage examples:

Blowflies, such as greenbottles and bluebottles, are attracted to your rabbit and its housing by th…

Meanings of Bluebuck:

noun

The blue duiker, cephalophus (or philantomba) monticola.

Meanings of Bluecoat:

noun

A soldier in a blue uniform, especially a union soldier during the american civil war.