What does "jersey" mean?
A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.
Jersey
/ˈd͡ʒɜːzi/ name, noun, slang
name, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.
- Grammar: jersey is listed as name, noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: athletic shirt, cattle, channel island, corduroy.
- Useful contrasts: beef cattle, continental, mainland.
- Usage evidence: Contador won the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body. countable
- 2 A cow of the Jersey breed.
- 3 a breed of dairy cattle developed on the island of Jersey wordnet
- 4 A shirt worn by a member of an athletic team, usually oversized, typically depicting the athlete's name and team number as well as the team's logotype. US, countable
"A young boy was wearing a Manchester City Erling Haaland jersey."
- 5 a slightly elastic machine-knit fabric wordnet
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- 6 A type of fabric knit. uncountable
- 7 a close-fitting pullover shirt wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 An island, a crown dependency of the United Kingdom; the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel between France and England.
"The resilience of Jersey’s elite is not new (Jersey is perhaps the only place in Europe that had the same government before, during and after Nazi occupation) but it had never previously been described with such forensic force."
- 2 A breed of dairy cattle from Jersey.
- 3 An English earldom.
- 4 New Jersey. US, informal
- 5 A town in Georgia, United States.
Synonyms
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Example
"Contador won the yellow jersey in the Tour de France."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "jersey"?
Common synonyms include: athletic shirt, cattle, channel island, corduroy, cotton, fabric.
How do you use "jersey" in a sentence?
Contador won the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.
How do you pronounce "jersey"?
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɜːzi/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From a typical fisherman's sweater used on the island of Jersey.
Etymology 2
From Middle English Gersey, from Anglo-Norman Gersui, further etymology disputed. Probably from Old Norse [Term?], compound of Geirs (“Geirr's”) + ey (“island”). Also occasionally and historically connected to Latin Caesarea, a common name given to locations conquered by the Romans in honor of Caesar (compare French Césarée). The latter theory still bestows the Latin translation of the island.