BLUE NOTE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A flattened third or seventh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("blue note" is a kind of...):

musical note; note; tone (a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound)

Holonyms ("blue note" is a part of...):

blues (a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes)

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