See Jen on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"10": "Jeannette",
"11": "Jeannine",
"12": "Jenna",
"13": "Jenny",
"14": "Jessie",
"15": "Jo",
"16": "Jody",
"17": "Juanita",
"18": "Shanae",
"19": "Sinead",
"2": "Ivanka",
"20": "Vanna",
"3": "Jan",
"4": "Janelle",
"5": "Janet",
"6": "Janey",
"7": "Janine",
"8": "Jeanette",
"9": "Jeanie"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna",
"name": "dbt"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Usually a clipped or hypocoristic form of Jennifer, although also used for Jean, Jeanette, Jeannette, etc.\nDoublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna in these secondary derivations.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Jen",
"name": "en-prop"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English female given names",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English given names",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "68 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English diminutives of female given names",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
156,
159
]
],
"ref": "2021 April 27, Daniel Dale, “New York Post temporarily deletes, then edits false story that claimed Harris’ book was given out in migrant ‘welcome kits’”, in CNN:",
"text": "The New York Post also temporarily took down and then revised and republished an article about the Fox reporter’s exchange with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A female given name."
],
"id": "en-Jen-en-name-b1svBRzJ",
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "5 95",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "10 90",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 91",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"word": "Jenny"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"word": "Jenna"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"word": "Jenessa"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Middle English masculine personal name, a short form of Old French Jehan"
],
"id": "en-Jen-en-name-o2~kOaA-",
"links": [
[
"Old French",
"Old French"
],
[
"Jehan",
"Jehan"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/d͡ʒɛn/"
},
{
"homophone": "Gen"
},
{
"homophone": "gen"
},
{
"homophone": "Jenn"
}
],
"word": "Jen"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English clippings",
"English diminutives of female given names",
"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English female given names from Cornish",
"English female given names from French",
"English female given names from Hebrew",
"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms with homophones",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "Jenny"
},
{
"word": "Jenna"
},
{
"word": "Jenessa"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"10": "Jeannette",
"11": "Jeannine",
"12": "Jenna",
"13": "Jenny",
"14": "Jessie",
"15": "Jo",
"16": "Jody",
"17": "Juanita",
"18": "Shanae",
"19": "Sinead",
"2": "Ivanka",
"20": "Vanna",
"3": "Jan",
"4": "Janelle",
"5": "Janet",
"6": "Janey",
"7": "Janine",
"8": "Jeanette",
"9": "Jeanie"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna",
"name": "dbt"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Usually a clipped or hypocoristic form of Jennifer, although also used for Jean, Jeanette, Jeannette, etc.\nDoublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna in these secondary derivations.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Jen",
"name": "en-prop"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English female given names",
"English given names",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
156,
159
]
],
"ref": "2021 April 27, Daniel Dale, “New York Post temporarily deletes, then edits false story that claimed Harris’ book was given out in migrant ‘welcome kits’”, in CNN:",
"text": "The New York Post also temporarily took down and then revised and republished an article about the Fox reporter’s exchange with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A female given name."
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Middle English masculine personal name, a short form of Old French Jehan"
],
"links": [
[
"Old French",
"Old French"
],
[
"Jehan",
"Jehan"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/d͡ʒɛn/"
},
{
"homophone": "Gen"
},
{
"homophone": "gen"
},
{
"homophone": "Jenn"
}
],
"word": "Jen"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Jen meaning in All languages combined (2.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (9c82c1c and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.