Jeans vs Dungarees - What's the difference?
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(pluralonly) A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.
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Heavy denim pants or overalls, worn especially as work clothing.
Dungarees is a synonym of jeans.
As nouns the difference between jeans and dungarees
is that jeans is a pair of trousers made from denim cotton while dungarees is heavy denim pants or overalls, worn especially as work clothing.As a proper noun Jeans
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English
Noun
(head)Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
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* See alsoDerived terms
* blue jeans * cream in one's jeansAnagrams
* English pluralia tantum ----dungarees
English
Noun
- Helen donned a pair of faded dungarees and grabbed her knapsack before rushing off to school.