jeans
/d͡ʒiːnz/
jeans noun: a pair of trousers made from denim cotton. Also the plural of jean.
Noun (1)
jeans pl (plural only, attributive jean)
- A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.
- Traditionally most jeans are dyed dark blue.
- 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
Noun (2) capitalized: Jeans
Jeans
- plural of Jean
Proper noun capitalized: Jeans
Jeans
Also used as
jeans is also the plural of jean.
jeans meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
jeans in Hindi
- denim trousers
- जीन्स jīns
jeans in Tamil
- denim trousers
- ஜீன்ஸ் jīṉs
jeans in Marathi
- denim trousers
- जीन्स jīnsa
jeans in Urdu
- denim trousers
- جینس jīns
More languagesFewer languages
- jeans in Bengali
- জিনস jins
- jeans in Telugu
- జీన్స్, జీన్స్స్
- jeans in Malayalam
- ജീൻസ്, ജീൻസ്സ്, ജീൻസുകൾ
- jeans in Kannada
- ಜೀನ್ಸ್, ಜೀನ್ಸ್ಗಳು
- jeans in Punjabi
- ਜੀਨਸ, ਜੀਨਜ਼, ਜੀਨ੍ਸ
- jeans in Gujarati
- જીન્સ, જિન્સ
- jeans in Odia
- ଜିନ୍ସ, ଜିନ୍ସସ୍
- jeans in Nepali
- जिन्सहरू, जीन्स, जींस
- jeans in Tagalog
- maong
- jeans in Arabic
- جِينْز jīnz
- jeans in Malay
- jean
- jeans in Indonesian
- jins
- jeans in Persian
- جین jin, لی li
- jeans in Thai
- ยีนส์ yiin, ยีน yiin, กางเกงยีน gaang-geeng yiin
- jeans in Vietnamese
- jeans, quần jeans, quần bò
- jeans in Myanmar
- ဂျင်းဘောင်းဘီ gyang:bhaung:bhi
Examples of jeans in a sentence
- I wrung out my wet jeans and hung them out to dry.
- I wanted to borrow my little sister's jeans, but they didn't fit.
- Since he put on weight, his jeans have been a tight fit.
Forms of jeans
| attributive | jean |
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Origin of jeans
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.
Words formed from jeans
Phrases with jeans
Words that rhyme with jeans
- beans
- greens
- teens
- leans
- means
- -enes
- by no means
- campfire beans
- cool beans
- figurines
- gleans
- intervenes
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Questions about jeans
- What does jeans mean?
- Jeans means a pair of trousers made from denim cotton.
- What is jeans in Hindi?
- Jeans in Hindi is जीन्स (jīns). See Jeans meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is jeans?
- Jeans can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce jeans?
- Jeans is pronounced /d͡ʒiːnz/.
Words near jeans in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: jeans (page history and authors); Jeans (page history and authors); jeans (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jeans (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jeans (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jeans (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jeans (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jeans (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jeans (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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