Word.ws English Dictionary

blue waves

blue waves is the plural of blue wave.

Meaning of blue wave

Noun

blue wave (plural blue waves)

  1. (US) A surge of voters supporting the candidates of the Democratic Party during an election (especially a midterm election), which results in the party making significant gains.
    • A handful of local elections in Mississippi is hardly a blue wave. But Democrats across the South hope what just happened there is the start of something big – the first ripple of a Democratic comeback in the Deep South.2013 June 23, Molly Ball, “Can Democrats Win Back the Deep South?”, in The Atlantic

Questions about blue waves

What is blue waves the plural of?
Blue waves is the plural of blue wave.

Words near blue waves in the dictionary

  1. blue walls
  2. blue walls of silence
  3. blue water
  4. blue waters
  5. blue wave
  6. blue waves
  7. blue waxweed
  8. blue weed
  9. blue weeds
  10. blue whale
  11. blue whales

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: blue waves (page history and authors); blue wave (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “blue waves.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/blue_waves. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.