bluegrass
bluegrass noun: kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis).
Noun (1)
bluegrass (countable and uncountable, plural bluegrasses)
- Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis).
Noun (2)
bluegrass (uncountable)
- A subgenre of country music with roots in Scots-Irish Appalachian folk music, blues, and jazz and characterized by banjos, fiddles, acoustic guitars, dobros, and mandolins; but containing no drums, electric guitars, pianos or other keyboard or wind instruments; using a bass fiddle to carry its rhythm.
bluegrass meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
bluegrass in Hindi
- ब्लूग्रास, ब्ल्यूग्रास
bluegrass in Marathi
- ब्ल्यूग्रास, ब्लूग्रास
bluegrass in Bengali
- ব্লুগ্রাস
bluegrass in Telugu
- బ్లూగ్రాస్, బ్ల్యూగ్రాస్
More languagesFewer languages
- bluegrass in Malayalam
- ബ്ലൂഗ്രാസ്, ബ്ല്യൂഗ്രാസ്
- bluegrass in Kannada
- ಬ್ಲ್ಯೂಗ್ರಾಸ್
- bluegrass in Punjabi
- ਬਲੂਗ੍ਰਾਸ
- bluegrass in Gujarati
- બ્લ્યુગ્રાસ, બ્લુગ્રાસ
- bluegrass in Odia
- ବ୍ଲୁଗ୍ରାସ୍, ବ୍ଲୁଗ୍ରାସ
- bluegrass in Nepali
- ब्लुग्रास, ब्लूग्रास, ब्ल्युग्रास
Forms of bluegrass
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Origin of bluegrass
From blue + grass, from the bluish appearance of the massed grass in late Spring.
From the band Blue Grass Boys, led by Bill Monroe; bluegrass is first attested in print in reference to the genre of music in 1956.
Words formed from bluegrass
- annual bluegrass
- Australian bluegrass
- big bluegrass
- bulbous bluegrass
- California bluegrass
- Canada bluegrass
- English bluegrass
- fowl bluegrass
- Kentucky bluegrass
- Merion bluegrass
- mutton bluegrass
- Nevada bluegrass
- rough bluegrass
- rough-stalked bluegrass
- Sandberg bluegrass
- Sandberg's bluegrass
- Shenendoah bluegrass
- Texas bluegrass
- Wheeler's bluegrass
- wood bluegrass
- bluegrasser
- bluegrass gospel
- bluegrass jazz
- bluegrass-jazz
- bluegrass-like
- bluegrassy
- newgrass
- progressive bluegrass
- thrashgrass
Phrases with bluegrass
Questions about bluegrass
- What does bluegrass mean?
- Bluegrass means kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis).
- What is bluegrass in Hindi?
- Bluegrass in Hindi is ब्लूग्रास, ब्ल्यूग्रास. See Bluegrass meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bluegrass?
- Bluegrass is a noun.
- What is the plural of bluegrass?
- The plural of bluegrass is bluegrasses.
Words near bluegrass in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bluegrass (page history and authors); bluegrass (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bluegrass (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bluegrass (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bluegrass (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bluegrass (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bluegrass (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bluegrass (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bluegrass (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bluegrass (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bluegrass (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.
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