jeans en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /d͡ʒiːnz/
- jēnz
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Gene(s) (also spelled Jean(s)), an obsolete English name for the Italian city of Genoa. Compare French Gênes. In the context of clothing, the term originally denoted a kind of coarse cotton (known more fully as Gene(s) fustian) that was associated with Genoa. It began to be used for trousers made of such cloth in the 19th century. At this point, the final -s was reanalysed as a plural ending.
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.
Traditionally most jeans are dyed dark blue.
She added: “I did a jean ad. I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but I love jeans. All I wear are jeans. I’m literally in jeans and a T-shirt every day of my life.”
2025 December 6, Tom Murray, quoting Sydney Sweeney, “Sydney Sweeney admits her silence on divisive jeans advert made controversy worse”, in The Independent:Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:As a general thing, they were dressed in homespun “jeans,” blue or yellow—there were no other varieties of it; all wore one suspender and sometimes two—yarn ones knitted at home,—some wore vests, but few wore coats.
1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 19:
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(form-of, plural) plural of jean
form of jean
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| jean | attributive | lexicographic |
Deriveds
cream in one's jeans · jorts · drainpipe jeans · boyfriend jeans · jeanswear · jeanlike · jeans jacket · mom jeans · blue jeans · skinny jeans · bikini jeans · jeggings · cream one's jeans · destroyed jeans
Descendants
τζιν · dżinsy · ĵinzo · ጂንስ · ĝinzo · джи́нсы · ĵinso · जीन्स · jíons
Relateds
Translations (135)
acw جينز (denim trousers) · nl jeansbroek (denim trousers) · ja ジーンズ (denim trousers) · he גִּ׳ינְס (denim trousers) · tl maong (denim trousers) · bo རས་བྱིང (denim trousers) · et teksased (denim trousers) · az cins (denim trousers) · tao abtan (denim trousers) · ky джинсы (denim trousers) · gd dìnichean (denim trousers) · km ខោខូវប៊ (denim trousers) · ga brístí géine (denim trousers) · id jins (denim trousers) · es tejanos (denim trousers) · sh farmerke (denim trousers) · es vaqueros (denim trousers) · es vaquero (denim trousers) · kk джинс (denim trousers) · sh краварке (denim trousers) · fa لی (denim trousers) · sh kravarke (denim trousers) · pl jeansy (denim trousers) · es bluyín (denim trousers) · et teksapüksid (denim trousers) · mn жийнс (denim trousers) · ko 진 (denim trousers) · mi tarau tāngari (denim trousers) · vi jeans (denim trousers) · sh траперице (denim trousers) · is gallabuxur (denim trousers) · tr blucin (denim trousers) · sh фармерке (denim trousers) · ar جِينْز (denim trousers) · cy jîns (denim trousers) · it ginsi (denim trousers) · es blue jean (blu yin) (denim trousers) · sq jeans (denim trousers) · no olabukse (denim trousers) · es pantalones de mezclilla (denim trousers) · yi דזשינס (denim trousers) · tr kot pantolon (denim trousers) · bg джи́нси (denim trousers) · uk джи́нси (denim trousers) · ka ჯინსი (denim trousers) · hu farmer (denim trousers) · nl spijkerbroek (denim trousers) · vi quần jeans (denim trousers) · arz جينز (denim trousers) · nl jeans (denim trousers) · da jeans (denim trousers) · pl dżinsy (denim trousers) · cs džíny (denim trousers) · bo འཇིན (denim trousers) · cdo 牛囝褲 /牛囝裤 (denim trousers) · no jeans (denim trousers) · sh rabatinke (denim trousers) · bn জিনস (denim trousers) · sk džínsy (denim trousers) · lv džinsi (denim trousers) · ht abako (denim trousers) · th ยีน (denim trousers) · ro blugi (denim trousers) · yue 牛仔褲 /牛仔裤 (denim trousers) · eo ĝinzo (denim trousers) · hy ջինս (denim trousers) · lo ໂສ້ງຄາບອຍ (denim trousers) · mr जीन्स (denim trousers) · de Jeanshose (denim trousers) · km ខោខូវ (denim trousers) · am ጂንስ (denim trousers) · sk rifle (denim trousers) · tr kot (denim trousers) · fi farmarihousut (denim trousers) · et teksad (denim trousers) · sl kavbojke (denim trousers) · arz جينس (denim trousers) · ur جینس (denim trousers) · eo ĵinso (denim trousers) · bg дъ́нки (denim trousers) · cmn 牛仔褲 /牛仔裤 (denim trousers) · es pantalón de mezclilla (denim trousers) · tg ҷинс (denim trousers) · km ខោខោវប៊យ (denim trousers) · be джы́нсы (denim trousers) · ms jean (denim trousers) · es mahón (denim trousers) · mk фармерки (denim trousers) · da cowboybukser (denim trousers) · ja ジーパン (denim trousers) · uz jinsi (denim trousers) · hi जीन्स (denim trousers) · th ยีนส์ (denim trousers) · vi quần bò (denim trousers) · pl teksasy (denim trousers) · lt džinsai (denim trousers) · ga jíons (denim trousers) · hu farmernadrág (denim trousers) · es jean (yin) (denim trousers) · sq xhins (denim trousers) · es mahones (denim trousers) · es blue jeans (blu yins) (denim trousers) · th กางเกงยีน (denim trousers) · ko 청바지 (denim trousers) · fa جین (denim trousers) · az cins şalvar (denim trousers) · acw جنز (denim trousers) · es pitusa (denim trousers) · cs džínsy (denim trousers) · la genuenses (denim trousers) · nan-hbl 牛仔褲 /牛仔裤 (denim trousers) · es tejano (denim trousers) · es jeans (yins) (denim trousers) · sh traperice (denim trousers) · ru джи́нсы (denim trousers) · mn жинсэн өмд (denim trousers) · my ဂျင်းဘောင်းဘီ (denim trousers) · nan-hbl 拍鐵仔褲 /拍铁仔裤 (denim trousers) · wuu 牛仔褲 /牛仔裤 (denim trousers) · de Jeans (denim trousers) · hak 牛仔褲 /牛仔裤 (denim trousers) · fr jeans (denim trousers) · sh farmerice (denim trousers) · it jeans (denim trousers) · fi farkut (denim trousers) · de Niethose (denim trousers) · el τζιν (denim trousers) · sh фармерице (denim trousers) · ca texans (denim trousers) · sv jeans (denim trousers) · ta ஜீன்ஸ் (denim trousers) · eo ĵinzo (denim trousers) · sh рабатинке (denim trousers) · pt calça jeans (denim trousers) · pt jeans (denim trousers)