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Meaning of jersey | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2 Frequent
ˈd͡ʒɜːzi

Definitions

  1. A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body
  2. An island, a crown dependency of the United Kingdom; the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel between France and England.
  3. A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.
    countable
  4. A cow of the Jersey breed.
  5. 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
  6. A breed of dairy cattle from Jersey.
  7. 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
  8. A type of fabric knit
  9. An English earldom.
  10. A type of fabric knit.
    uncountable
  11. New Jersey.
    US, informal
  12. A town in Georgia, United States.

Equivalents

العربية جيرزي
Български пуловер
Bosanski jezi
Català jersei
Čeština žerzej
Cymraeg siwmper
Dansk Jersey
Ελληνικά Τζέρσεϊ φανέλα
Eesti kampsun
Gàidhlig geansaidh
Galego xersei
Hrvatski jezi
Magyar méz
Հայերեն մարզաշապիկ
日本語 ジャージー
ქართული ნიუ-ჯერსი
한국어 저지
Македонски Њу Џерси
Монгол ноосон цамц
Bahasa Melayu jersi
Polski dżersej
Português Jérsei Jersey Jérsia malha
Српски jezi
Svenska jumper Olle
Kiswahili jezi
తెలుగు జెర్సీ

Examples

“A young boy was wearing a Manchester City Erling Haaland jersey.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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