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# jersey

«jersey» in Mova's school dictionary: **a knitted top with sleeves, like a jumper or sweater** — 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 (a jersey, jerseys; Jersey — the island)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A jersey is a knitted top with sleeves, like a jumper or sweater. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jersey/#m1)

2) A jersey is a shirt worn by players in a sports team, often with a number on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jersey/#m2)

3) Jersey is a soft stretchy cloth used for T-shirts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jersey/#m3)

4) Jersey is an island in the English Channel, and a Jersey is a breed of cow from there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jersey/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, in New Zealand and Australia a jersey is the usual word for a jumper; in the USA and Canada a jersey usually means a sports shirt. In PE and sports, teams wear jerseys with numbers and colours. New Jersey is a state in the USA, named after the island. Phrases: team jersey, football jersey, a woolly jersey.

### examples

- Put on your jersey, it's cold outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jersey/#x1)
- Our team jerseys are blue with white numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jersey/#x2)
- He wore number ten on his jersey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jersey/#x3)
- Grandma knitted me a woolly jersey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jersey/#x4)
- Jersey cows give very creamy milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jersey/#x5)
- My pyjamas are made of soft jersey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jersey/#x6)

### note

Countable: jerseys (just add s). Capital J for the island, the state New Jersey and the cow breed. Its meaning changes by country: jumper (UK), sweater (US), jersey (NZ).

### In the corpora

- [Le maillot jaune is the yellow jersey worn by the rider leading the whole race, not a team colour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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