What does Jean mean?

Definitions for Jean
dʒinjean

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Jean.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. jean, blue jean, denimnoun

    (usually plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear

  2. denim, dungaree, jeannoun

    a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric

GCIDE

  1. jeannoun

    (pl.) (j

  2. jeannoun

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Wiktionary

  1. jeannoun

    Denim.

  2. jeanadjective

    Made of denim (as "jean jacket").

  3. Jeannoun

    A female given name from Hebrew.

    There's not a bonnie flower that springs / By fountain, shaw, or green, / There's not a bonnie bird that sings / But minds me o' my Jean.

  4. Jeannoun

    A male given name from Hebrew

  5. Jeannoun

    A surname.

  6. Jeannoun

    An unincorporated community in Nevada

  7. Etymology: The female given name is from a Middle English feminine form of John (sometimes considered Scottish), from Old French Jehane. The male given name is likely from or influenced by French Jean.

Wikipedia

  1. JEAN

    JEAN was a dialect of the JOSS programming language developed for and used on ICT 1900 series computers in the late 1960s and early 1970s; it was implemented under the MINIMOP operating system. It was used at the University of Southampton.JEAN was an acronym derived from "JOSS Extended and Adapted for Nineteen-hundred". It was operated from a Teletype terminal.

ChatGPT

  1. jean

    Jean is a type of durable, heavy-duty cotton twill cloth. It is most commonly known and used in the manufacturing of a style of pants called "jeans." The fabric originated in cities in Italy and France, and was initially used for work clothes due to its durability. Now, it is widely popular in fashion all around the world.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Jeannoun

    a twilled cotton cloth

  2. Etymology: [Prob. named from Genoa. See Jane.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Jean

    jān, n. a twilled cotton cloth.—n. Jeanette′, coarse jean, for lining.—Satin jean, a smooth, glossy, hard-twilled cotton goods. [Jane.]

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  2. JEAN

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. JEAN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Jean is ranked #1703 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Jean surname appeared 21,140 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 7 would have the surname Jean.

    70.2% or 14,857 total occurrences were Black.
    22.8% or 4,839 total occurrences were White.
    2.5% or 537 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2% or 431 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.8% or 400 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.3% or 74 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Jean' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3641

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Jean' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1401

Anagrams for Jean »

  1. jane

  2. Jane

  3. Jena

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Jean in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Jean in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Jean in a Sentence

  1. Oprah Winfrey:

    I'd like to do more films, but to receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award means more to me than any film, any acclaim, even an Oscar, because what it says is you all get it.

  2. Resident Alyssa Kinsey:

    Botham Shem Jean was great, as Botham Shem Jean.

  3. Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980:

    Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

  4. Allison Jean:

    My life has not been the same, it's just been like a roller coaster.Guyger, who is white, testified that after working long hours on September 6, 2018, she returned to her Dallas County apartment complex. In uniform but off duty, she approached what she thought was her apartment. She noticed the door was partially open, saw a man inside who she believed to be an intruder, and fired her service weapon, killing him.How Botham Jeans mother is preparing to face the former police officer who killed her sonIn fact, she was at the apartment directly above hers -- which belonged to the 26-year-old Jean, who was black. Prosecutors said Jean had been on the couch in his shorts, watching TV and eating vanilla ice cream when Guyger walked in.Read MoreJurors deliberated for less than 24 hours before reaching the verdict. Guyger was booked into the North Tower Detention Center in Dallas Tuesday afternoon, according to the county website.Though the topic of race did not figure prominently in the trial itself, outside the courtroom, Jean's case had became a focal point in the national conversation on policing and the threat of violence people of color face in daily life.After the verdict, S. Lee Merritt, an attorney for Jean's family, called the murder conviction a.

  5. Werley Nortreus:

    L'ancien président haïtien Jean-Bertrand Aristide dit qu'Haïti est un pays avec de nombreuses victimes de préjugés. Je pense qu'il dit la vérité.

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