jeans
USJEENZ/d͡ʒinz/
- 1Strong cotton pants, usually blue, made from a tough cloth called denim.
She wore her favorite jeans to the party.
These jeans are too tight around the waist.
Similardenims
Note
- 2Plural of jean. A single pair of pants made of jean is also called jeans.
She bought two pairs of jeans at the store.
All the jeans on the rack were on sale.
Note
jeans is a form of jean
jean, noun: A strong cotton cloth used to make work clothes and pants. Full entry
- Forms
- jeanjeans plural
- Spelling
- jean → jeans: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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Origin
'Jeans' comes from Gene(s), an old English name for the Italian city of Genoa. It first meant a rough cotton cloth linked to that city, and later meant trousers made from it.