jean

Meanings

Plural: jeans

Noun

(usually plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear
a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric
Denim.

Origin / Etymology

From the Middle English Gene (“Genoa”), from the Old French Jannes. Bleu de Gênes (“Genovese blue”) was a blue dye made in Genoa used to tint the denim cloth produced in Nîmes (de Nîmes). Doublet of Genoa and Geneva and distantly related to knee.

Synonyms

blue jean, denim, dungaree

Scrabble Score: 11

jean is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
jean is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
jean is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

jean is a valid Words With Friends word