dark blue

English

Noun

dark blue (countable and uncountable, plural dark blues)

1. A deep, dim blue colour: navy or similar.
2. (UK, rowing) A member of the Oxford rowing team.

   Coordinate term: light blue

   • 2018, Will Wyatt, Oxford Boy: A Post-War Townie Childhood:

     The university did not touch my world directly but you couldn't be a boy in Oxford without supporting the dark blues against the Cambridge light blues, in the boat race […]

Translations

a deep, dim blue colour — see also navy,‎ navy blue

• Arabic: كحلي
• Azerbaijani: şəhla
• Bulgarian: тъмносин (tǎmnosin)
• Dakota: thósape
• French: bleu foncé
• Georgian: მუქი ლურჯი (muki lurǯi)
• German: Dunkelblau n
• Greek: σκούρο μπλε (skoúro ble)
• Gujarati: નીલું (gu) (nīlũ)
• Hungarian: sötétkék (hu)
• Japanese: 紺 (ja) (こん, kon)
• Jeju: 퍼렁ᄒᆞ다 (peoreonghawda)
• Mongolian: хөх (mn) (xöx), ᠬᠥᠬᠡ (köke)
• Norwegian: mørkeblå (no)
• Persian: آبی تیره (âbi-ye tire)
• Polish: ciemnoniebieski (pl)
• Russian: синий (ru) (sinij)
• Spanish: azul oscuro
• Swedish: mörkblå (sv), dunkelblå
• Thai: ขาบ (th) (kàap)

See also

bluesedit

• Alice blue
• aqua
• aquamarine
• azure
• baby blue
• beryl
• bice
• bice blue
• blueberry
• blue green
• blue violet
• cadet blue
• Cambridge blue
• cerulean
• cobalt blue
• Copenhagen blue
• cornflower
• cornflower blue
• cyan
• dark blue
• Dodger blue
• duck-egg blue
• eggshell blue
• electric blue
• gentian blue
• ice blue
• lapis lazuli
• light blue
• lovat
• mazarine
• midnight blue
• navy
• Nile blue
• Oxford blue
• peacock blue
• petrol blue
• powder blue
• Prussian blue
• robin's-egg blue
• royal blue
• sapphire
• saxe blue
• sky blue
• slate blue
• teal
• turquoise
• ultramarine
• Wedgwood blue
• zaffre