jean
see also: Jean
Pronunciation Noun
Jean
Pronunciation Proper noun
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see also: Jean
Pronunciation Noun
jean
- (mostly attributive) Denim.
- She wore a tattered jean jacket.
Jean
Pronunciation Proper noun
- 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.}}
- 1788, Robert Burns, Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw:
- A male given name
- Surname
- An unincorporated community in Nevada
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