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# jeans

«jeans» 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 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (jeans; plural only — a pair of jeans)

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life jeans are common clothes for play and weekends; some schools have «non-uniform days» when pupils can wear jeans. History: jeans were first made strong for miners and workers in America in the nineteenth century. Phrases: «a pair of jeans», «skinny jeans», «denim jacket».

### examples

- I wear jeans at the weekend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeans/#x1)
- These jeans are too long for me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeans/#x2)
- My jeans have a hole in the knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeans/#x3)
- She bought a new pair of jeans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeans/#x4)
- Jeans are made from denim. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeans/#x5)
- Can we wear jeans on non-uniform day? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeans/#x6)
- My jeans are in the wash. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeans/#x7)

### note

Always plural: «My jeans are blue» (not «is»). Count with «pair»: «one pair of jeans», «three pairs of jeans». Same pattern as «trousers», «shorts», «pants». «Jean» alone is a girl's name, not a piece of clothing.

### In the corpora

- [That is why jeans go pale and why one red sock can turn a whole wash pink.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/7/)
- [Jeans are woven with blue threads one way and white threads the other, which is why the inside is paler than the outside.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers/2/)
- [Metal rivets on jeans were patented (registered as an invention) in 1873 to stop pockets tearing on miners' work trousers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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