English

Proper noun

Jean

1. A female given name.
   • 1788 Robert Burns, Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw:

     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.‎

   • 1866 Louisa May Alcott, Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power, Chapter II

     - - - Isn't Jean a pretty name?" "Not bad; but why don't you call her Miss Muir?" "She begged me not. She hates it, and loves to be called Jean, alone."‎

   • 1972 Anne Tyler, The Clock Winder, Knopf, 1972, page 67

     He was trying to think of her name; she had come to cook him dinner twice last spring. - - - Jean, maybe. Or Betty. One of these plain names.‎

2. A male given name
3. A surname​.
4. An unincorporated community in Nevada

Related terms

• (diminutives) Jeanie, Jeannie
• Jane and its variants

Anagrams

• jane, Jane
• Jena

French

Etymology

From Old French Jehan, from Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης ‎(Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן ‎(Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃/
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

Proper noun

Jean

1. John (biblical character).
2. A male given name, traditionally very popular in France, also common as the first part of hyphenated given names.

Related terms

• Feminine form: Jeanne
• Hypocoristics: Jeannot
• Variants: Yann, Yannick, Yoann, Yvan

Limburgish

Etymology

From French.

Noun

Jean m

1. A male given name.

Inflection

• The dative and accusative are obsolete nowadays, use the nominative instead.

See also

• Jón
• Jan

Norman

Etymology

From Old French Jehan, from Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης ‎(Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן ‎(Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”).

Proper noun

Jean m

1. A male given name, equivalent to French Jean and English John.
2. John (biblical character).

Derived terms

• Jeannot

English

Noun

jean ‎(countable and uncountable, plural jeans)

1. (chiefly attributive) Denim.

   She wore a tattered jean jacket.

Derived terms

• jeans

Anagrams

• jane, Jane, Jena

French

Etymology

Borrowing from English jean.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒin/
• Homophones: djinn, gin

Noun

jean m ‎(plural jeans)

1. a pair of jeans

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish ·dénai, prototonic form of do·gní.

Verb

1. imperative of jannoo - do
2. interrogative future form of jannoo - do