plural jeans
1
: a durable twilled cotton cloth used especially for sportswear and work clothes
2
usually jeans
: pants usually made of denim or jean
… strolling with royal puppy Lupo through Kensington Gardens near the couple's two-bedroom cottage in a pair of jeans and rain boots.—
Alicia Dennis et al.
Alicia Dennis et al.Millions of people today buy designer jeans for double the price of equally durable generic jeans …—Jared Diamond
see also blue jeans, mom jeans
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Sweeney gets a lot of attention for the provocative messaging behind her work and public presence — her campaign for jeans-maker American Eagle caused the stock to spike — but the formation of Honey Trap is an acknowledgment that there is ambition and substance behind the hyphenate.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 1 June 2026
Her dark glasses, white zip-up, tan trench, and medium-wash jeans are less immediately recognizable as being from a particular brand…and that’s exactly the point.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 1 June 2026
Brands is in exclusive talks to sell Pizza Hut to LongRange, Bloomberg reports , and Kontoor agreed to sell its Lee jeans business to Authentic Brands in a deal that could be worth $1 billion.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 June 2026
Come Sunday, Raman, wearing jeans and a chartreuse cardigan, was greeting bike riders at a Sawtelle coffee shop and speaking to a phone bank group at UCLA.
—Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 1 June 2026
Her dark glasses, white zip-up, tan trench, and medium-wash jeans are less immediately recognizable as being from a particular brand…and that’s exactly the point.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 1 June 2026
Brands is in exclusive talks to sell Pizza Hut to LongRange, Bloomberg reports , and Kontoor agreed to sell its Lee jeans business to Authentic Brands in a deal that could be worth $1 billion.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 June 2026
Come Sunday, Raman, wearing jeans and a chartreuse cardigan, was greeting bike riders at a Sawtelle coffee shop and speaking to a phone bank group at UCLA.
—Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026
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“Jean.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jean. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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jean
noun1
: a heavy cotton cloth used especially for sportswear and work clothes
2
plural
: pants made of jean, denim, or corduroy
Etymology
a shortened form of earlier jean fustian, literally "a fustian (heavy cotton cloth) from Genoa," from Middle English Gene "Genoa, Italy"
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