Jade

Quick meaning: Jade is a noun meaning A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.

Meaning

A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.

More Meanings

1. A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
2. A succulent plant, Crassula ovata.
3. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
4. A horse too old to be put to work.
5. (especially derogatory) A bad-tempered or disreputable woman.
6. To fatigue, tire, or weary (someone or something).
7. (obsolete) To treat (someone or something) like a jade; to spurn.

Example Sentences

You alwayes end with a iades tricke, I knowe you of olde.

That Iade hath eate bread from my Royall hand. / This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.

My horse would have trotted to Clifton within the hour, if left to himself, and I have almost broke my arm with pulling him in to that cursed broken-winded jade’s pace.

Shee hath more qualities then a Water-Spaniell, […] Shee can fetch and carry: why a horſe can doe no more; nay, a horſe cannot fetch, but onely carry, therefore is ſhee better then a Iade.

Word Forms

• jades
• jading
• jaded

Synonyms for jade

Depending on context, synonyms include jadestone, jade stone, yu, nag, yaud, bitch.

Antonyms for jade

Common opposites include refresh, freshen, refreshen.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jadestone, chromatic, colored, plug, hack, pall.

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