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 →

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 →
• These jeans are too long for me. tree →
• My jeans have a hole in the knee. tree →
• She bought a new pair of jeans. tree →
• Jeans are made from denim. tree →
• Can we wear jeans on non-uniform day? tree →
• My jeans are in the wash. tree →

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.
• Jeans are woven with blue threads one way and white threads the other, which is why the inside is paler than the outside.
• Metal rivets on jeans were patented (registered as an invention) in 1873 to stop pockets tearing on miners' work trousers.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «jeans» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.