Definition of "Jersey"

Jersey

/ˈd͡ʒɜːzi/

proper noun
1. A dependency of the United Kingdom; the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel between France and England.
  Quotations
  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.
  2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 3, in Moneyland, Profile Books
2. A breed of dairy cattle from Jersey.
3. An English earldom.
4. (US, informal) New Jersey.
5. A town in Georgia, United States.
noun
plural Jerseys
1. A cow of the Jersey breed.