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Webster 1913 Edition

Jade

Jade

(jād)
,
Noun.
[F., fr. Sp.
jade
, fr. piedra de
ijada
stone of the side, fr.
ijada
flank, side, pain in the side, the stone being so named because it was supposed to cure this pain. Sp.
ijada
is derived fr. L.
ilia
flanks. Cf.
Iliac
.]
1.
(Min.)
A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements, esp. in Eastern countries and among many early peoples.
☞ The general term jade includes nephrite, a compact variety of tremolite with a specific gravity of 3, and also the mineral jadeite, a silicate of alumina and soda, with a specific gravity of 3.3. The latter is the more highly prized and includes the feitsui of the Chinese. The name has also been given to other tough green minerals capable of similar use.

Jade

,
Noun.
[OE.
jade
; cf. Prov. E.
yaud
, Scot.
yade
,
yad
,
yaud
, Icel.
jalda
a mare.]
1.
A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag.
Chaucer.
Tired as a
jade
in overloaden cart.
Sir P. Sidney.
2.
A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man.
Shak.
She shines the first of battered
jades
.
Swift.
3.
A young woman; – generally so called in irony or slight contempt.
A souple
jade
she was, and strang.
Burns.

Jade

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Jaded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Jading
.]
1.
To treat like a jade; to spurn.
[Obs.]
Shak.
2.
To make ridiculous and contemptible.
[Obs.]
I do now fool myself, to let imagination
jade
me.
Shakespeare
3.
To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any kind; to tire, make dull, or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass.
Syn. – To fatigue; tire; weary; harass.
– To
Jade
,
Fatigue
,
Tire
,
Weary
. Fatigue is the generic term; tire denotes fatigue which wastes the strength; weary implies that a person is worn out by exertion; jade refers to the weariness created by a long and steady repetition of the same act or effort. A little exertion will tire a child or a weak person; a severe or protracted task wearies equally the body and the mind; the most powerful horse becomes jaded on a long journey by a continual straining of the same muscles. Wearied with labor of body or mind; tired of work, tired out by importunities; jaded by incessant attention to business.

Jade

,
Verb.
I.
To become weary; to lose spirit.
They . . . fail, and
jade
, and tire in the prosecution.
South.

Webster 1828 Edition

Jade

JADE

,
Noun.
1.
A mean or poor horse; a tired horse; a worthless nag.
Tired as a jade in overloaden cart.
2.
A mean woman; a word of contempt, noting sometimes age, but generally vice.
She shines the first of battered jades.
3.
A young woman; in irony or slight contempt.

JADE

,
Noun.
A mineral called also nephrite or nephritic stone,remarkable for its hardness and tenacity, of a color more or less green, and of a resinous or oily aspect when polished. It is fusible into a glass or enamel. Cleveland divides jade into three subspecies, nephrite, saussurite, and axestone. It is found in detached masses or inhering in rocks.

JADE

,
Verb.
T.
To tire; to fatigue; to weary with hard service; as, to jade a horse.
1.
To weary with attention or study; to tire.
The mind once jaded by an attempt above its power, is very hardly brought to exert its force again.
2.
To harass; to crush.
3.
To tire or wear out in mean offices; as a jaded groom.
4.
To ride; to rule with tyranny.
I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.

JADE

,
Verb.
I.
To become weary; to lose spirit; to sink.
They are promising in the beginning,but they fail and jade and tire in the prosecution.

Definition 2024

Jade

Jade

See also: jade, jáde, jäde, and jadę

English

Proper noun

Jade

  1. A female given name.
    • 2010 Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, ISBN 9780385609500, page 102:
      Emily. Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades — names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours —

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

From jade ‎(“jade”), in imitation of English usage. First recorded as a Finnish given name in the 1970s.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjɑde/
  • Hyphenation: Ja‧de

Proper noun

Jade

  1. A female given name.
    • 2016 Niina Hakalahti, Lumilinna, Karisto, ISBN 978-951-23-6177-9, pages 84, 122:
      - Kyllä mä tiedän, että Jade ja Jeri on kamalat nimet. Eikä Emma ole yksinhuoltajana aina jaksanut olla ihan niin looginen kuin olisi pitänyt.
      ( - - - )
      -- No just niillä sen ennustuksilla. Mutta mä en nyt halua puhua niistä sen enempää. Jadesta tulee varmaan samanlainen, sillä on jo nyt tapana katsoa toisen läpi, huomasitko silloin Kemissä?
      Sami ei ollut kiinnittanyt huomiota kumpaankaan lapseen erityisesti, muutoin kuin vain huonon käytöksen osalta.
      - Jadehan on hyvä nimi ennustajalle.

Declension

Inflection of Jade (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative Jade Jadet
genitive Jaden Jadejen
partitive Jadea Jadeja
illative Jadeen Jadeihin
singular plural
nominative Jade Jadet
accusative nom. Jade Jadet
gen. Jaden
genitive Jaden Jadejen
Jadeinrare
partitive Jadea Jadeja
inessive Jadessa Jadeissa
elative Jadesta Jadeista
illative Jadeen Jadeihin
adessive Jadella Jadeilla
ablative Jadelta Jadeilta
allative Jadelle Jadeille
essive Jadena Jadeina
translative Jadeksi Jadeiksi
instructive — Jadein
abessive Jadetta Jadeitta
comitative — Jadeineen

French

Proper noun

Jade

  1. A female given name from the noun jade, popular in the 2000s.

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From French jade ‎(“jade”), error for earlier l'ejade ‎(“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada ‎(“flank stone”), from Vulgar Latin *iliata, from Latin ilia ‎(“flank”) (Jade was thought to cure pains in the side.).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjaːdə/
  • Rhymes: -aːdə
  • Hyphenation: Ja‧de

Noun

Jade m, f ‎(genitive Jades or Jade, plural Jaden)

  1. (uncountable) jade (gem)
  2. (countable) an artifact made of jade

Declension

Gemstone
Artifact

Synonyms

  • (gem): Jadeit, Nephrit, Chloromelanit
  • (jade artifact): Jadeobjekt

Derived terms

References

  • Jade in Duden online

jade

jade

See also: Jade, jáde, jäde, and jadę

English

A jadeite ball

Noun

jade ‎(usually uncountable, plural jades)

  1. (uncountable) A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.
    • 2012 March 1, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128:
      Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
  2. A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
    jade colour:    
Synonyms
Derived terms
See also
Translations

Adjective

jade ‎(not comparable)

  1. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.

Etymology 2

From Middle English, either a variant of yaud[2] or merely influenced by it. Yaud derives from Old Norse jalda ‎(“mare”), from a Uralic language, such as Moksha эльде ‎(elʹde) or Erzya эльде ‎(elʹde).[3][4] See yaud for more.

Noun

jade ‎(plural jades)

  1. A horse too old to be put to work.
  2. (chiefly pejorative) A woman.

Synonyms

Translations

Verb

jade ‎(third-person singular simple present jades, present participle jading, simple past and past participle jaded)

  1. To tire, weary or fatigue
    • John Locke
      The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, […] checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.
  2. (obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
  3. (obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.
    • Shakespeare
      I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.
Synonyms
  • See also Wikisaurus:fatigue
Derived terms
Translations

References

  1. ↑ “jade” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
  2. ↑ Eric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (ISBN 1134942168, 2006)
  3. ↑ Per Thorson, Anglo-Norse studies: an inquiry into the Scandinavian elements in the modern English dialects, volume 1 (1936), page 52: "Yad sb. Sc Nhb Lakel Yks Lan, also in forms yaad, yaud, yawd, yoad, yod(e).... [jad, o] 'a work-horse, a mare' etc. ON jalda 'made', Sw. dial. jäldä, from Finnish elde (FT p. 319, Torp p. 156 fol.). Eng. jade is not related."
  4. ↑ Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research, page 18: "There is thus no etymological connection between ME. jāde MnE. jade and ME. jald MnE. dial. yaud etc. But the two words have influenced each other mutually, both formally and semantically."

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jaːdə/, [ˈjæːð̩]
  • Rhymes: -aðə

Noun

jade c ‎(singular definite jaden, uncountable)

  1. (mineralogy) jade

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑde

Noun

jade

  1. (mineralogy) jade

Declension

Inflection of jade (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative jade jadet
genitive jaden jadejen
partitive jadea jadeja
illative jadeen jadeihin
singular plural
nominative jade jadet
accusative nom. jade jadet
gen. jaden
genitive jaden jadejen
jadeinrare
partitive jadea jadeja
inessive jadessa jadeissa
elative jadesta jadeista
illative jadeen jadeihin
adessive jadella jadeilla
ablative jadelta jadeilta
allative jadelle jadeille
essive jadena jadeina
translative jadeksi jadeiksi
instructive — jadein
abessive jadetta jadeitta
comitative — jadeineen

French

Etymology

Mistaken for earlier l'ejade ‎(“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada ‎(“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia ‎(“flank”) (jade was thought to cure pains in the side).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒad/

Noun

jade m ‎(plural jades)

  1. jade

Anagrams

Portuguese

Etymology

From French le jade, error for earlier l'ejade ‎(“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada ‎(“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia ‎(“flank”) (jade was thought to cure pains in the side).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -adʒi

Noun

jade m (plural jades)

  1. jade (gem)

Spanish

Etymology

From French le jade, error for earlier l'ejade ‎(“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada ‎(“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia ‎(“flank”) (jade was thought to cure pains in the side).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈxa.ðe], [ˈxa.de]
  • See also: jadee

Noun

jade m ‎(plural jades)

  1. (mineralogy) jade

Derived terms

  • jadeíta

Anagrams

Etymology

From jade, taken into general use in the 1970s.

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