jeans

The word “jeans” means trousers made of sturdy cotton denim, traditionally blue. In plain terms, the classic denim trousers.

“Jeans” is pronounced jeenz (/d͡ʒiːnz/ in IPA).

Here is “jeans” used in a sentence: “He wore a pair of faded jeans and a T-shirt.”

“Jeans” is a noun.

The word “jeans” comes from Old English. From "Gene(s)," an old English name for Genoa, where a similar coarse cotton fabric originated; the final "-s" was later reinterpreted as a plural ending once the word came to describe trousers.

“Jeans” is a fairly common word in modern English, usually learned at around the A1 level.

Denim is the sturdy cotton fabric; jeans are the trousers made from it. Denim can also be used for jackets, skirts, and bags, while jeans refers specifically to the garment. That is why 'denim jeans' describes the material rather than being redundant.

Jeans is grammatically plural and always takes a plural verb: 'these jeans are new', never 'this jeans is new'. Like trousers and scissors, it has no singular form for the garment; to count them, English uses 'a pair of jeans' or 'two pairs of jeans'.

American English strongly favors 'jean jacket', using the singular form as a modifier, while 'denim jacket' is the more precise term and the usual one in British English. 'Jeans jacket' is understood but much less common.

Trousers — or pants in American English — is the general word for a two-legged garment covering the body from the waist down, while jeans are specifically trousers made of denim, traditionally blue. All jeans are trousers, but only denim ones are jeans.