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# jean

«jean» in Mova's school dictionary: **Trousers made of strong cotton cloth called denim…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (jean, jeans); proper noun (Jean)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (jeans, plural) Trousers made of strong cotton cloth called denim, usually blue: «a pair of jeans». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jean/#m1)

2) (jean, as an adjective) Made of denim: «a jean jacket». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jean/#m2)

3) (noun, old) A strong cotton cloth like denim. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jean/#m3)

4) Jean is a name: in English usually a woman's name (rhymes with «seen»); in French it is a man's name (said «zhahn»), like John. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jean/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life jeans are what children wear to school on «non-uniform day» and at weekends. In reading «Jean» may be a character's name. Phrases: «a pair of jeans», «blue jeans», «jean jacket», «skinny jeans».

### examples

- I wore my new jeans to the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jean/#x1)
- These jeans are too long; Mum will turn them up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jean/#x2)
- He has a blue jean jacket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jean/#x3)
- Aunt Jean makes the best scones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jean/#x4)
- Jean-Luc is a French boy in our class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jean/#x5)
- My jeans got a hole in the knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jean/#x6)

### note

Clothes word is nearly always plural: «my jeans are», «a pair of jeans». «Jean» alone is mostly used before another noun (jean jacket) or as a name. Homophone: «gene» (part of our DNA) sounds the same as Jean in English.

### In the corpora

- [In 1822 Jean-François Champollion used the Rosetta Stone to read hieroglyphs again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/6-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jean» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jean/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.