- a feminine name: dim. Janet, Jenny
- [j-]Slang a girl or woman
Origin of Jane
French Jeanne from Medieval Latin Joanna: see Joanna
noun
- An example of Jane is a shortened version of Janet.
- An example of Jane is a nickname for a woman whose name is unknown.
Jane is a woman's name, or is slang for a woman or a girl.
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Noun
(plural janes)
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:
- Certes was but a common Courtisane, / Yet flat refusd to haue a do with mee, / Because I could not giue her many a Iane.
Origin
From Old French Jannes (“Genoway”).
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Sentence Examples
- By which the succession devolved upon Mary, and now he violated his oath by signing Edward's " device " of the crown to Lady Jane Grey.
- Crystals were first found in Cornwall (at Wheal Jane, near Truro, associated with pyrrhotite) by J.
- Ann and Jane Taylor >>
- In November, with Lady Jane Grey, her husband, and two other Dudleys, Cranmer was condemned for treason.
- 1 In February 1566 Bothwell, in spite of his previous matrimonial engagements - and he had also been united by "handfasting" to Janet Betoun of Cranstoun Riddell - married Jane, daughter of George Gordon, 4th earl of Huntly.
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