jane

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim A female given name from French, the standard feminine form of John since the 17th century.

   “In latter years some of the better and nicer sort, misliking Joan, have mollified the name of Joan into Jane, as it may seem, for that Jane is never found in old Records; and as some will, never before the time of King Henry the eight.”

2. özel isim A surname originating as a patronymic derived from a Middle English variant of John.
3. isim used as a placeholder name for any woman, especially a young working-class woman
4. isim A girlfriend.

   “What happened to your regular Jane?”

5. isim Alternative letter-case form of jane (“female client of a prostitute”).
6. isim A silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century.

   “14th c, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Rime of Sire Thopas, The Canterbury Tales, 1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, Volume 1, page 124, His robe was of chekelatoun, / That coste many a jane.”

7. isim Alternative letter-case form of Jane, a woman.
8. isim Alternative spelling of jean.
9. isim A female client of a prostitute.

   “The Swedish system, seemingly, does not target “janes” (female clients of sex workers).”