jeans
See also: Jeans
English
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Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jeans pl (plural only, attributive jean)
- (clothing) A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.
- Traditionally most jeans are dyed dark blue.
- 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:
- 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.
- 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- 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.
- 2025 December 6, Tom Murray, quoting Sydney Sweeney, “Sydney Sweeney admits her silence on divisive jeans advert made controversy worse”, in The Independent[1]:
- 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.”
Noun
[edit]jeans
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:trousers
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Amharic: ጂንስ (ǧins)
- → Greek: τζιν (tzin)
- → Hindi: जीन्स (jīns)
- → Irish: jíons
- → Polish: dżinsy
- → Russian: джи́нсы (džínsy)
- → Livvi: džinsat
Translations
[edit]plural of jean — see jean
denim trousers
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Noun
[edit]jeans f (plural jeans, diminutive jeansje n)
- a pair of jeans (denim trousers)
- (by extension) any denim garment
- (invariable) the cotton fabric denim
Synonyms
[edit]- (trousers): jeansbroek m, spijkerbroek m
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- blue jeans
- Genuees m & adjective
French
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[edit]jeans m
Italian
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jeans m pl (plural only)
References
[edit]- ^ jeans in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
[edit]- jeans in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norman
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[edit]Noun
[edit]jeans m pl
Portuguese
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Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English jeans. Doublet of Génova. The feminine and feminine plural genders for sense “denim trousers” stem from an ellipsis of calça jeans / calças jeans (“denim trousers”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ĩs
- Hyphenation: jeans
Noun
[edit]jeans m (uncountable)
Noun
[edit]jeans m or f or m pl or f pl (sometimes plural only, in variation, invariable)
- jeans (denim trousers)
- Synonym: (Portugal) calças de ganga
- Ontem usei uns jeans brancos. ― Yesterday I wore some white jeans.
Adjective
[edit]jeans (invariable, not comparable)
- (Brazil, relational) denim
- calça jeans ― denim trousers; jeans
- saia jeans ― denim skirt
- jaqueta jeans. ― denim jacket
Further reading
[edit]- “jeans”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “jeans”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
- “jeans”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “jeans”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
- “jeans”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English jeans.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ins
Noun
[edit]jeans m (plural jeans)
- jeans (trousers)
- Synonym: pantalones vaqueros
- Los jeans son negros.
- The jeans are blue.
- No me quedan esos jeans.
- Those jeans don't fit me.
- ¿Puedes ir con jeans a la playa?
- Can you go to the beach in jeans?
- Déjame ponerme los jeans.
- Let me put on my jeans.
- plural of jean
Usage notes
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[edit]Noun
[edit]jeans c
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | - | - |
| definite | - | - | |
| plural | indefinite | jeans | jeans |
| definite | jeansen | jeansens |
References
[edit]- “jeans”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “jeans”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
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